# 2003 in Mexico

Events in the year 2003 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Vicente Fox PAN
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
** Jorge Castañeda Gutman, until January 10
** Luis Ernesto Derbez, starting January 15
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola
* Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Carlos María Abascal Carranza
* Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
* Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR)
** Leticia Navarro, until July 29
** Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, starting July 29
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
** Víctor Lichtinger, until June
** Alberto Cárdenas, starting June
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
* Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Felipe González González PAN
* Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
* Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño PRD
* Campeche
** José Antonio González Curi, until September 15
** Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI, starting September 16
* Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRI
* Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García PRI
* Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI
* Colima
** Fernando Moreno Peña PRI, until October 31
** Carlos Flores Dueñas PRI, interim governor November 1-December 31
* Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier PRI
* Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
* Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros PRI
* Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI
* Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
* State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel PRI
* Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
* Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN.
* Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
* Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
* Oaxaca: José Murat Casab PRI
* Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI
* Querétaro
** Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN, until September 30
** Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN, starting October 1
* Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI
* San Luis Potosí
** Fernando Silva Nieto, until September 25
** Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN, Starting September 26
* Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI
* Sonora
** Armando López Nogales PRI, until September 13
** Eduardo Bours PRI, starting September 13
* Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
* Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington PRI
* Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
* Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
* Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal PRD
* Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD

## Events

* Fahrenheit has its first issue published.
* The Chiapas Bridge is finished with being constructed.
* The México Posible party is founded and dissolved.
* January 21: 2003 Colima earthquake.
* February 18: The State of Mexico votes in a referendum on the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.
* March 13: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas is created.
* June 2: The Escuela Preparatoria Tlalpan II "Otilio Montaño" is inaugurated.
* July 5: The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples goes into effect.
* July 6: 2003 Mexican legislative election
* September: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun.
* September 5: Nuestra Belleza México 2003.
* September 28: Optibús starts operations.
* November 15: Miss Latin America 2004 held in Cancun.
* November 27: the Monterrey Arena is opened.
* December 9 – 11: The United Nations Convention against Corruption is opened for signing in Mérida, Yucatán.
* December 22: Counter-terrorism base Ixtoc-Alfa is founded by the Mexican Navy.

## Hurricanes

* June 26 – 27: Tropical Storm Carlos (2003)
* June 29 – July 2: Tropical Storm Bill (2003)
* July 8 – 17: Hurricane Claudette (2003)
* August 14 – 17: Hurricane Erika (2003)
* August 22 – 27: Hurricane Ignacio (2003)
* September 8 – 24: Hurricane Marty (2003)
* October 1 – 6: Tropical Storm Larry (2003)

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Luis González y González
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Marco A. López Jr.
** Patricia Madrid

## Sport

* Primera División de México Clausura 2003
* Primera División de México Apertura 2003
* Mexico win the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
* 2003 Centrobasket held in Culiacán
* 2003 Centrobasket Women
* 2003 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
* 2003 Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante
* 2003 MasterCard Truck Series season
* 2003 Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix
* Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2003)
* 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Bosnia
* 2003 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship Culiacan, Sinaloa
* 2003 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Saltillo, Coahuila
* 2003 Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
* Mexico at the 2003 Pan American Games
* 2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup from San Diego, California, United States to Tijuana, Baja California.
* C.F. Mérida founded.
* Tijuana Dragons founded.
* Monterrey Fury founded.

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 2003

## Births

* January 16 – Adriana Hernández, rhythmic gymnast
* May 8 – Joaquín Bondoni, singer, songwriter and actor
* September 18 – Ana Galindo, rhythmic gymnast

## Deaths

* February 11: Socorro Avelar, actress (b. 1925)
* June 10: Alfredo Guati Rojo watercolor artist (b. December 1, 1918)
* November 1: Humberto Briseño Sierra, Mexican lawyer (b. 1914)
* November 6: Eduardo Palomo, actor (Corazón salvaje (1993 TV series)) (b. 1962)