2011 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2011 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Felipe Calderón PAN
Interior Secretary
*Francisco Blake Mora, until November 11
*Alejandro Poiré Romero, starting November 17
Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Patricia Espinosa
Communications Secretary
*Juan Molinar Horcasitas, until January 7
*Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, starting January 7
Education Secretary : Alonso Lujambio
Secretary of Defense : Guillermo Galván Galván
Secretary of Navy : Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare
*Javier Lozano Alarcón, until December 14
*Rosalinda Vélez Juárez, starting December 14
Secretary of Welfare : Heriberto Félix Guerra
Secretary of Public Education :
Tourism Secretary :
Secretary of the Environment : Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Secretary of Health
*José Ángel Córdova, until September 9
*Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, starting September 9
Secretary of Energy
*José Antonio Meade, until September 9
*Jordy Herrera Flores, starting September 9
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
*Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until September 9
*José Antonio Meade, starting September 9
Secretary of Economy : Bruno Ferrari García de Alba
Secretariat of Public Security : Genaro García Luna

Governors

Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI
Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán PAN
Baja California Sur
*Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, until April 5.
*Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, starting April 5.
Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés PRI
Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero,
Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez PRI
Coahuila
*Humberto Moreira PRI, until January 4
*Jorge Torres López PRI, January 4–November 30
*Rubén Moreira PRI, starting December 1
Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno PRI
Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PRI
Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva PAN
Guerrero
*Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, until March 31
*Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, starting April 1
Hidalgo
*Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
*Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez PAN
State of Mexico
*Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, until September 16
*Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI, starting September 16
Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel PRD
Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame PAN.
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI
Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo, Convergence
Puebla
*Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, until January 31
*Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas PAN, starting February 1
Querétaro: José Calzada PRI
Quintana Roo
*Félix González Canto PRI, until April 4
*Roberto Borge Angulo PRI, starting April 5
San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI
Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, starting January 1
Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN
Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo PRI
Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú PRI, starting January 1
Tlaxcala
*Héctor Ortiz Ortiz PAN, untl January 14
*Mariano González Zarur PRI, starting January 15
Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco PRI
Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
List of mayors of [Mexico City|Head of Government of the Federal District]: Marcelo Ebrard

Events

January–March

;January

January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
January 14 – Mexican drug war: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.
January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.

;February

February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
February 20 – Mexican drug war: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

;March

March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.

April–June

;April

April 6 – 2011 [Tamaulipas massacre]: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.

;May

May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.

;June

June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.

July–September

;July

July 3
* State elections in the State of Mexico.
* State elections in Nayarit.
* Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.

;August

August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.
August 25 – 2011 [Monterrey casino attack]: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.

;September

October–December

;October
;November

November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.

;December

Awards

Notable deaths

January to June

January 5 – Saúl Vara Rivera, politician PRI, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila; shot.
January 11
*Abraham Ortíz Rosales, politician PVEM, Mayor of Temoac, Morelos; shot.
*Susana Chávez, poet and human rights activist, strangled.
January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec; shot.
February 4 – Juan Carlos Guardado Méndez, politician PT, former municipal president of Fresnillo, Zacatecas; murdered.
February 9 – Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno, journalist, Torreón, Coahuila; killed.
February 12 – Saturnino Valdez Llanos, politician ||PRI, municipal president of Tampico Alto, Veracruz; murdered.
February 22 – José Luis Prieto Torres, politician, former president of Allende Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
February 28 – Enrique Chávez Gómez, politician PRD, former candidate for municipal president of Saucillo, Chihuahua; murdered.
March 10 – Mario Chuc Aguilar, politician, former municipal president of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo; murdered.
March 25 – José Luis Cerda Meléndez & Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, journalists, Guadalupe, Nuevo León; killed.
April 7 – Enterbio Reyes Bello, politician, former president of Copanatoyac (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
May 14 – Silvia Moreno Leal, politician, former president of Balleza Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
May 18 – Fernando Duarte Flores, politician, former municipal president of Hidalgo, Coahuila; murdered.
May 31 – Noel López Olguín, journalist, Chinameca, Veracruz; killed.
June 7 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.
June 14 – Pablo Ruelas Barraza, journalist, Huatabampo, Sonora; killed.
June 20 – Miguel Ángel López Velasco, journalist, Veracruz; killed.
June 24 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.

July to December

July 3 – Ángel Castillo Corona, journalist, Ocuilan State of Mexico; killed.
July 21 – Ernesto Cornejo Valenzuela, politician PAN, former candidate for deputy; state delegate for the PAN in Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora; murdered.
July 26 – Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, journalist, Veracruz, Veracruz; killed.
July 28 – Fortino Cortés Sandoval, politician, municipal president of Florencia de Benito Juárez, Zacatecas; murdered.
August 20 – José Eduviges Nava Altamirano, politician PT, municipal president of Zacualpan, State of Mexico; murdered.
August 24 – Luz María García Villagrán, politician, president of Gran Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.||
September 1
*Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist, Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
*Rocío González Trápaga, journalist, Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
September 15 – Gustavo Pacheco Villaseñor, politician PRI, former municipal president of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
September 17 – Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, politician PRI,Deputy from Tlapa de Comonfort (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
September 24 – María Elizabeth Macías Castro, journalist, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
August 25 – Humberto Millán Salazar, journalist, Culiacán, Sinaloa; killed.
October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician PRI; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987
November 2 – Ricardo Guzmán Romero, politician PAN, municipal president of La Piedad, Michoacán; murdered.
November 19 – Roberto Miguel Galván, politician, former municipal president of Tepetzintla, Veracruz; murdered.
December 3 – Hugo César Muruato Flores, journalist, Chihuahua, Chihuahua; killed.
December 12 – Fortunato Ruiz Blázquez, politician, former municipal president of Ixhuacán, Veracruz; murdered.
December 21 – José Martínez Mendoza, politician, former municipal president of Cosalá, Sinaloa; murdered.
December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral ; heart attack.
December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor ; cancer, died in New York City, United States.
December 31 – Porfirio Flores Ayala, politician PRI||former president of Cuernavaca Municipality, Morelos; murdered.