# 2005 in Mexico

Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Vicente Fox PAN
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Ernesto Derbez
* 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 (date of resignation not available)
** Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz (date of appointment not available)
* Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
** Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, until June 23
** José Luis Luege Tamargo, starting June 23
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
* Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)
** Rafael Macedo de la Concha, until April 27
** Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, starting April 28

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso PAN
* Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
* Baja California Sur
** Leonel Cota Montaño PRD, until April 5.
** Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, starting April 5.
* Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI
* Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
* Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
* Coahuila
** Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI, until February 15
** Humberto Moreira PRI, starting February 17
* Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
* Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
* Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
* Guerrero
** René Juárez Cisneros PRI, date not available
** Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, date not available
* Hidalgo
** Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI, until March 31
** Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI, starting April 1
* Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
* State of Mexico
** Arturo Montiel PRI, until September 16
** Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, starting September 16
* Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
* Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN
* Nayarit
** Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
** Ney González Sánchez, starting September
* Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
* Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
* Puebla
** Melquíades Morales PRI, until January 31
** Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, starting February 1
* Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
* Quintana Roo
** Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI, until April 4
** Félix González Canto PRI, starting April 5
* San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
* Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
* Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
* Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
* Tamaulipas
** Tomás Yarrington PRI, until February 1
** Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI, starting February 5
* Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
* Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
* Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
* Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez PRD

## Events

* CUMEX is formed.
* The Socialist Alliance (Mexico) is formed.
* The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' is founded.
* January 30 – New Alliance Party founded.
* March 23 – The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is signed by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States in Waco, Texas.
* March 29 – Ariel Award in 2005
* April 7 – The Chamber of Deputies votes to lift Andrés Manuel López Obrador's constitutional immunity against prosecution (desafuero).
* April 16–17 – National Assembly of the Socialist Left
* May 8 – 2005 Denver police officer shooting
* June 8: Alejandro Domínguez Coello is murdered.
* July 18 – Hurricane Emily (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
* September 2 – Nuestra Belleza México 2005
* September 8 – The Mexican Army is received with honors at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas in response to Hurricane Katrina.
* October 4 – Hurricane Stan (category 1) hits the state of Veracruz.
* October 21 – Hurricane Wilma (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
* November 4 – Start of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas.
* November 7 – radio program El Weso starts airing.
* November 10 – Beginning of the 2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis.
* December 9 – the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Program was signed between by Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Central America.
* December 25 — The Popocateptl volcano's crater produced an explosion which ejected a large column of smoke and ash about 3 km (1.9 mi) into the atmosphere and expulsion of lava.

## Elections

* 2005 Coahuila state election
* 2005 Colima gubernatorial election
* 2005 State of Mexico election

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Gilberto Borja Navarrete
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Marylou Olivarez Mason
** Miguel D. Wise
** Blanca Alvarado
** Ruben Barrales

## Popular culture
### Sports

* Primera División de México Clausura 2005
* Primera División de México Apertura 2005
* 2005 InterLiga
* Fútbol Americano
* 2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
* 2005 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate
* 2005 Desafío Corona season
* 2005 Rally México
* 2005 Caribbean Series in Mazatlán
* Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2005)
* 2005 IIHF World Championship Division III won by Mexico in Mexico.

### Film

* March 29 – The XLVII edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
* November 4 – La mujer de mi hermano

### Literature

Carlos Monsiváis won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes)

### TV
#### Telenovelas

* July 18 – Amor en custodia on TV Azteca
* July 18 – La esposa virgen on Televisa
* September 26 – El Amor No Tiene Precio on Televisa
* October 3 – Machos on TV Azteca

## Notable deaths

* January 5 – Eduardo Hay (89), International Olympic Committee
* January 14 – Ofelia Guilmain (83), Spanish -born film and stage actress
* January 18 – Teodoro Herrera Sosa, politician PRI, former municipal president, Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas;murdered along with wife and two children.
* January 22 – Consuelo Velázquez (88), songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song Bésame Mucho
* February 24 – Gustavo Vázquez Montes (42), incumbent governor of Colima
* March 27 – Rigo Tovar (58), popular singer and composer
* April 10 – Raúl Gibb Guerrero (53), newspaper editor
* April 16 – Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla (39), journalist
* April 16 – Jaime Fernández (67), actor
* April 29 – Mariana Levy (39), actress
* May 5 – Édgar Ponce (30), actor
* June 5 – Oscar Morelli (59), actor
* June 5 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (55), scholar, diplomat and politician
* June 8 – Alejandro Domínguez (52), chief of police of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
* July 2 – Martin Sanchez (26), boxer
* July 6 – Marga López (81), Argentine -born screen and television actress
* August 6 – Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (86), trade union leader
* September 21 – Ramón Martín Huerta (48), minister of public security of the federal government
* November 6 – Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela (87), lawyer and professor