# 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 (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
** José Antonio Meade, until August 25
** Claudia Ruiz Massieu, starting August 27
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
* Education Secretary (SEP)
** Emilio Chuayffet, until August 27
** Aurelio Nuño Mayer, starting August 27
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS):
* Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR)
** Rosario Robles, until August 27
** José Antonio Meade, starting August 27
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
** Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until August 27
** Enrique de la Madrid Cordero, starting August 27
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
** Juan José Guerra Abud, until August 27
** Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, starting August 27
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): Mercedes Juan López
* Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP): 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 ("El Bronco"), 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
* 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 (5–3).

### 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

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Alberto Baillères
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
** King Felipe VI of Spain
** Charles, Prince of Wales
** Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Hector Ruiz
** John D. Trasviña
** Valentina Alazraki
** Suzy Castor
** Maria Elena Durazo
** Raúl Grijalva
** Ana Recio Harvey
** José Huizar
** Ray Keck
** Eva Longoria
** Spencer MacCallum
** Antonio Olmos

## Deaths

* January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.
* January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
* January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist (Excélsior and Proceso).
* January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor (Dos Corazones y un Cielo) and singer, complications from a stroke.
* January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982), Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991).
* February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
* February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman (b. 1932)
* February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
* February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara).
* 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 (AAA), stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
* March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer.
* April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP (1997–2000), cancer.
* April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona (1975–1977), Ambassador to El Salvador (1964–1968), Bolivia (1968–1969) and Argentina (1977–1980).
* April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, c. 20, suspected assassin, shot.
* April 23
** Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist (Memín Pinguín, MAD).
** Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa (1988–1991), MP for Veracruz (1994–1997).
* April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
* May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
* May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
* June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician (PAN).
* June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians), pneumonia.
* June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion (1988–1989), 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. (b. 1928)
* July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer. (b. 1951)
* 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 (1980).
* August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
* August 23
** Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy (1997–2000).
** Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation (1970–1976).
* September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), 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 (1987–1994).
* 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 (Tigres de Quintana Roo).
* October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate (2006–2012), plane crash.
* November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
* November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
* November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
* December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975)
* December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (1996–2009).
* December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
* December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973).