2015 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2015 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI
Interior Secretary : Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
*José Antonio Meade, until August 25
*Claudia Ruiz Massieu, starting August 27
Communications Secretary : Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
Education Secretary
*Emilio Chuayffet, until August 27
*Aurelio Nuño Mayer, starting August 27
Secretary of Defense : Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
Secretary of Navy : Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare :
Secretary of Welfare
*Rosario Robles, until August 27
*José Antonio Meade, starting August 27
Tourism Secretary :
*Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until August 27
*Enrique de la Madrid Cordero, starting August 27
Secretary of the Environment
*Juan José Guerra Abud, until August 27
*Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, starting August 27
Secretary of Health : Mercedes Juan López
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, : Luis Videgaray Caso

Governors

Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI
Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid PAN
Baja California Sur
*Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, until September 10
*Carlos Mendoza Davis PAN, starting September 10
Campeche
*Fernando Ortega Bernés PRI, until September 15
*Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas PRI, starting September 16
Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello PVEM
Chihuahua: César Horacio Duarte Jáquez PRI
Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez, PRI
Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno, PRI
Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PAN
Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez, PAN
Guerrero
*Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor, until October 27
*Héctor Astudillo Flores PRI, since October 27
Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval PRI
State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI
Michoacán
*Salvador Jara Guerrero PRI, Substitute governor until September 30
*Silvano Aureoles Conejo PRD, starting October 1
Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD.
Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI
Nuevo León
*Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI, until October 4
*Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, Independent, starting October 4
Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo MC
Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, PAN
Querétaro: José Calzada, PRI
Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo, PRI
San Luis Potosí
*Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI, until September 25
*Juan Manuel Carreras PRI, since September 26
Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, PAN
Sonora
*Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN, until September 12
*Claudia Pavlovich Arellano PRI, starting September 13
Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez PRD
Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú, PRI
Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur PRI
Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello PRI
Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes PRI
List of mayors of [Mexico City|Head of Government of the Federal District]: Miguel Ángel Mancera, Independent

Events

January

January 7: CENAPRED reported that ash from recent explosions coats the snow on the Popocateptl volcano's upper slopes.
January 29: An explosion occurred in a maternal hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, leaving 7 dead and 60 injured.

February

February 13: A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30.
February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.

March

March 3: During the international tour, in search of foreign investment, President Enrique Peña Nieto, makes various economic, financial and cultural agreements with the Queen Elizabeth II.

April

April 4: Lunar Eclipse
April 8: Mexico issues a 100-year bond for 1.5 billion euros, equivalent to 620 million dollars.

May

May 22: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias dies general director of ISSSTE
May 27: The SCT opens audits on contracts awarded to OHL
May 27: Nestora Salgado will be transferred to another prison, that of Tepepan.
May 28: Murder of coordinator of Panista candidate in the delegation Azcapotzalco.
May 28: The INE agrees to pay $10,000 to Rigoberta Menchú.
May 31: Santos champion by defeating the team of Querétaro.

June

June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.

July

July 11: Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison in Almoloya de Juárez. This was his second escape from a Mexican prison, his first being in 2001.

November

November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico.

Awards

Deaths

January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress, heart attack.
January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist.
January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor and singer, complications from a stroke.
January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato, Governor of Guanajuato.
February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman
February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer.
February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision.
March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack.
March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler, stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla, lung cancer.
April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP, cancer.
April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona, Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina.
April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, 20, suspected assassin, shot.
April 23
*Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist.
*Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa, MP for Veracruz.
April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer, stomach cancer.
May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician.
June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player, pneumonia.
June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion, stabbed.
June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer.
July 2: Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Recognized communicator who directed for more than 20 years the main news on national network; stroke.
July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer.
July 21: Gelsen Gas, 82, artist and filmmaker.
July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist.
August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
August 23
*Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy.
*Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation.
September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader, heart attack.
September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician.
September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director.
September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece.
October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist.
October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager.
October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate, plane crash.
November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes.
November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero
December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla.
December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion.