# 2014 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2014 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
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
* Education Secretary (SEP): Emilio Chuayffet
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida
* Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR): Rosario Robles
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Claudia Ruiz Massieu
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan José Guerra Abud
* 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
* Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés, PAN
* Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello PVEM
* Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez PRI
* Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez PRI
* Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno PRI
* Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PRI
* Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez PAN
* Guerrero
** Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, until October 23
** Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor starting October 27
* Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
* Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval PRI
* State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI
* Michoacán
** Fausto Vallejo PRI, until June 19
** Salvador Jara Guerrero, Substitute starting June 20
* Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD.
* Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI
* Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI
* 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
* Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez PAN
* Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN
* Tabasco: Eruviel Ávila Villegas 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 PRD

## Events
### February

* February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years.

### March

* March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.

### April

* April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
* April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero.

### May

* May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.

### August

* 27 August–September: CENAPRED reported explosions of Popocateptl, accompanied by steam-and-gas emissions with minor ash and ash plumes that rose 800-3,000 m above the volcano's crater, which drifted west, southwest, and west-southwest. On most nights incandescence was observed, increasing during times with larger emissions.
* 29 and 31 August 2014: The Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported discrete ash emissions from Popocateptl.

### September

* September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
* September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
* September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
* September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers.

### October

* October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa.
* October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.

### November

* November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
* November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
* November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
* November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
* November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
* November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
* November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.

### December

* December 2 – The number of Chikungunya cases in Chiapas increases from 14 to 39 in one week. Between 17,000 and 18,000 cases have been reported by the Pan American Health Organization.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Eraclio Zepeda
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
** José Mujica, President of Uruguay
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Bismarck Lepe
** Hispanic Heritage Foundation
** Denise Moreno Ducheny
** Alma Flor Ada
** Fernando Valenzuela
** Jonathan Rothschild
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
** Linguistics and literature – María de los Dolores Castro Varela and Eraclio Zepeda Ramos
** Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz and Mauricio Hernández Ávila
** History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy – Néstor García Canclini and Enrique Semo Calev
** Technology and Design – José Mauricio López Romero
** Popular Arts and Traditions – Carlomagno Pedro Martínez and Alberto Vargas Castellano
** Fine arts – Arnaldo José Coen Ávila

## Deaths

* January 23 – Miguel Ángel Guzmán Garduño, journalist (Vértice) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero; killed.
* January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, notable writer.
* February 5 – Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, journalist (Notisur & Liberal del Sur) in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; killed.
* February 16 – Omar Reyes Fabiánjournalist (Oaxaca Tiempo) in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca; killed.
* February 28 – Benjamín Galván Gómez, journalist (Última Hora & Primera Hora) in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
* June 2 – Jorge Torres Palacios, journalist (El Dictamen de Guerrero) in Acapulco, Guerrero; killed.
* July 14 – Antonio Riva Palacio, politician PRI, Governor of Morelos (1988-1994), Ambassador to Ecuador (b. 1926)
* July 30 – Nolberto Herrera Rodríguez, journalist (Canal 9) in Guadalupe, Zacatecas; killed.
* August 12 – Murder of Octavio Rojas Hernández: Journalist (El Buen Tono) in Cosolapa Oaxaca; killed.
* August 21 – Marlén Valdez García, journalist (La Última Palabra) in Juárez, Nuevo León; killed.
* August 27 – Adrián Gaona Belmonte, journalist (La Comadrita 97.3 FM Radio) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.
* September 3 – Víctor Pérez Pérez, journalist (Sucesos) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; killed.
* October 12 – Octavio Atilano Román Tirado, journalist (ABC Radio) in Mazatlán, Sinaloa; killed.
* September 23 (approx.) – Gabriel Gómez Michel, politician PRI, Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from Zacatecas.
* October 16 – María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, journalist (Valor por Tamaulipas) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.
* October 22 – Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, journalist (Nueva Prensa) in Los Mochis, Sinaloa; killed.
* November 28 – Chespirito "Roberto Gómez Bolaños", actor and writer.
* December 15 — Fausto Zapata, lawyer, politician PRI, diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991