2011 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2011 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Felipe Calderón
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
- Communications Secretary (SCT):
- Education Secretary (SEP):
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
- Secretary of Navy:
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
- Secretary of Welfare:
- Secretary of Public Education:
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT):
- Secretary of Health (SALUD):
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Baja California:
- Baja California Sur:
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
Events
January–March
August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: Casino Royale in fire, after the attack
- 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.[1][2]
- January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.[3]
- 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.[4]
- February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.[5]
- February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.[6]
- February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.[7]
- March
April–June
- April
- April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.[9]
- 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.[10]
July–September
- July
- July 3
- 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.[12][13]
- August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.[14][15]
- August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.[16]
- September
Notable deaths
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.
- January 7 – Saúl Vara Rivera, Mexican politician, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila, shot. (body found on this date)
- January 10 – Abraham Ortíz Rosales, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temoac, shot.
- January 11 – Susana Chávez, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
- January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, Mexican politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec, shot.
- October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (b. 1920)
- December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011), heart attack.[17]
- December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor (Zorro series), cancer and died in New York City, United States.[18]
References
- (BBC)
- (IOL)
- (CNN)
- (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- (AP via Buffalo News)
- Mexico Tamaulipas body count rises to 177, Business Recorder, April 22, 2011
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2011-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Explota paquete en Tec-Edomex; hay dos heridos
- 10 datos de la explosión en el Tec Estado de México: Multimedia
- (Spanish)
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