# 2008 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Felipe Calderón PAN
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB)
** Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
** Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office)
** Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez
* Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón
* Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)
** Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
** Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova
* Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna
* Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens
* Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
* Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas
* Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas
* Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez
* Secretary of Economy (SE)
** Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
** Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
* Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso, (National Action Party, PAN)
* Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, (PAN)
* Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
* Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
* Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Colima: Silverio Cavazos, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Durango: Ismael Hernández, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva, (National Action Party, PAN)
* Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* State of Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February); Leonel Godoy Rangel (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)
* Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).
* Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
* Nuevo León: José Natividad González Parás, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Puebla: Mario Marín Torres, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón (National Action Party, PAN)
* Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Sonora: Eduardo Bours, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (National Action Party, PAN)
* Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
* Zacatecas: Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)
* Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

## Events

* Macrolimosna
* June 1–2: Tropical Storm Arthur 2008
* July 20–21: Hurricane Dolly 2008
* August 3–8: XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008
* September: Riots in the La Mesa Prison
* September 15: 2008 Morelia grenade attacks
* October 6–7: Tropical Storm Marco 2008
* November 4: 2008 Mexico City plane crash
* November 26: Premios Oye! 2008

## Elections

* 2008 Mexican elections

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Eliseo Medina
** David Coss
** Monica C. Lozano
** Patricia Torres-Ray

## Popular culture
### Sports

* Primera División de México Clausura 2008
* 2008 Primera División de México Apertura
* 2008 North American SuperLiga
* 2008 InterLiga
* 2008 Carrera Panamericana
* 2008 NASCAR Corona Series season
* 2008 Rally México
* 2008 LATAM Challenge Series season
* 2008 Centrobasket
* 2008 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
* 2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
* Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2008)
* 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
* 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guadalajara)
* 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Turkey
* 2008 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
* 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
* 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships
* 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
* Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics
* Mexico at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

### TV
#### Telenovelas

* Fuego en la Sangre
* Las Tontas No Van al Cielo
* Alma de Hierro
* Querida Enemiga
* Cuidado con el ángel
* Juro Que Te Amo
* Un Gancho al Corazón
* En Nombre del Amor
* Mañana Es Para Siempre

## Notable deaths

* January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
* January 30 – Marcial Maciel
* February 2 – Francisco de Santiago Silva, visual artist
* February 11 – Emilio Carballido
* February 25 – Alan Ledesma, 30, actor, stomach cancer.
* March 22 – Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
* April 8 – Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, actress, melanoma.
* April 10 – Ernesto Corripio Ahumada
* April 14 – Miguel Galvan, 50, actor, renal failure.
* May 8 – Leopoldo Juárez Urbina, politician (Convergence), former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.
* May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
* June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.
* June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered
* June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
* July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.
* July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (born 1955)
* July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
* July 30 – Alejandro Aura
* August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
* September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician PRD, municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.
* September 29 – Miguel Córcega, 78, actor and director, stroke.
* October 4 – Servando González
* October 8 – Salvador Vergara Cruz, politician PRI, municipal president of Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico; murdered.
* November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
* December 2 – Carlos Abascal
* December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)