# 2011 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2011 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Felipe Calderón PAN
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB)
** Francisco Blake Mora, until November 11 (died in office)
** Alejandro Poiré Romero, starting November 17
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
* Communications Secretary (SCT)
** Juan Molinar Horcasitas, until January 7
** Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, starting January 7
* Education Secretary (SEP): Alonso Lujambio
* 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, until December 14
** Rosalinda Vélez Juárez, starting December 14
* Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Heriberto Félix Guerra
* Secretary of Public Education (SEP):
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD)
** José Ángel Córdova, until September 9
** Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, starting September 9
* Secretary of Energy (SENER)
** José Antonio Meade, until September 9
** Jordy Herrera Flores, starting September 9
* Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)
** Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until September 9
** José Antonio Meade, starting September 9
* Secretary of Economy (SE): Bruno Ferrari García de Alba
* Secretariat of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre PRI
* Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán PAN
* Baja California Sur
** Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, until April 5.
** Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN, starting April 5.
* Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés PRI
* Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
* Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez PRI
* Coahuila
** Humberto Moreira PRI, until January 4
** Jorge Torres López PRI, January 4–November 30
** Rubén Moreira PRI, starting December 1
* Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno PRI
* Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PRI
* Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva PAN
* Guerrero
** Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, until March 31
** Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, starting April 1
* Hidalgo
** Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
** Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
* Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez PAN
* State of Mexico
** Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, until September 16
** Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI, starting September 16
* Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel PRD
* Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame PAN.
* Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
* Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI
* Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo, Convergence
* Puebla
** Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, until January 31
** Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas PAN, starting February 1
* Querétaro: José Calzada PRI
* Quintana Roo
** Félix González Canto PRI, until April 4
** Roberto Borge Angulo PRI, starting April 5
* San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI
* Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, starting January 1
* Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN
* Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo PRI
* Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú PRI, starting January 1
* Tlaxcala
** Héctor Ortiz Ortiz PAN, untl January 14
** Mariano González Zarur PRI, starting January 15
* Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
* Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco PRI
* Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
* Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

## Events
### January–March
#### January

* January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
* January 14 – Mexican Drug War: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.
* January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
* January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.

#### February

* February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
* February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
* February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
* February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
* February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

#### March

* March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.

### April–June
#### April

* April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.

#### May

* May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.

#### June

* June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.

### July–September
#### July

* July 3
** State elections in the State of Mexico.
** State elections in Nayarit.
** Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.

#### August

* August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.
* August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
* August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.

#### September
### October–December
#### November

* November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.

#### December
## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solorzano
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
** Alexander Gonzalez
** Charlie Gonzalez
** Carlos Gutierrez
** Salud Carbajal
** Francisco G. Cigarroa
** Paddy Moloney
** Mel Martínez
** David J. Schmidly
** Richard A. Tapia
** Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
** Edward James Olmos

## Notable deaths
### January to June

* January 5 – Saúl Vara Rivera, politician PRI, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila; shot. (body found on this date)
* January 11
** Abraham Ortíz Rosales, politician PVEM, Mayor of Temoac, Morelos; shot.
** Susana Chávez, poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
* January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec; shot.
* February 4 – Juan Carlos Guardado Méndez, politician PT, former municipal president of Fresnillo, Zacatecas; murdered.
* February 9 – Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno, journalist (Grupo Multimedios Laguna), Torreón, Coahuila; killed.
* February 12 – Saturnino Valdez Llanos, politician ||PRI, municipal president of Tampico Alto, Veracruz; murdered.
* February 22 – José Luis Prieto Torres, politician, former president of Allende Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
* February 28 – Enrique Chávez Gómez, politician PRD, former candidate for municipal president of Saucillo, Chihuahua; murdered.
* March 10 – Mario Chuc Aguilar, politician, former municipal president of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo; murdered.
* March 25 – José Luis Cerda Meléndez & Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, journalists (La Prensa), Guadalupe, Nuevo León; killed.
* April 7 – Enterbio Reyes Bello, politician, former president of Copanatoyac (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
* May 14 – Silvia Moreno Leal, politician, former president of Balleza Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
* May 18 – Fernando Duarte Flores, politician, former municipal president of Hidalgo, Coahuila; murdered.
* May 31 – Noel López Olguín, journalist (La Verdad de Jáltipan), Chinameca, Veracruz; killed.
* June 7 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.
* June 14 – Pablo Ruelas Barraza, journalist (Diario del Yaqui & El Regional de Sonora), Huatabampo, Sonora; killed.
* June 20 – Miguel Ángel López Velasco, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz; killed.
* June 24 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.

### July to December

* July 3 – Ángel Castillo Corona, journalist (Puntual and Diario de México), Ocuilan State of Mexico; killed.
* July 21 – Ernesto Cornejo Valenzuela, politician PAN, former candidate for deputy; state delegate for the PAN in Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora; murdered.
* July 26 – Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz, Veracruz; killed.
* July 28 – Fortino Cortés Sandoval, politician, municipal president of Florencia de Benito Juárez, Zacatecas; murdered.
* August 20 – José Eduviges Nava Altamirano, politician PT, municipal president of Zacualpan, State of Mexico; murdered.
* August 24 – Luz María García Villagrán, politician, president of Gran Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.||
* September 1
** Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist (Contralínea), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
** Rocío González Trápaga, journalist (Televisa Mexico City), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
* September 15 – Gustavo Pacheco Villaseñor, politician PRI, former municipal president of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
* September 17 – Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, politician PRI,Deputy from Tlapa de Comonfort (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
* September 24 – María Elizabeth Macías Castro, journalist (Primera Hora), Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
* August 25 – Humberto Millán Salazar, journalist (A Discusión and Radio Fórmula Culiacán), Culiacán, Sinaloa; killed.
* October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician PRI; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (b. 1920)
* November 2 – Ricardo Guzmán Romero, politician PAN, municipal president of La Piedad, Michoacán; murdered.
* November 19 – Roberto Miguel Galván, politician, former municipal president of Tepetzintla, Veracruz; murdered.
* December 3 – Hugo César Muruato Flores, journalist (La Caliente 90.9), Chihuahua, Chihuahua; killed.
* December 12 – Fortunato Ruiz Blázquez, politician, former municipal president of Ixhuacán, Veracruz; murdered.
* December 21 – José Martínez Mendoza, politician, former municipal president of Cosalá, Sinaloa; murdered.
* December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011); heart attack.
* December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor (Zorro series); cancer, died in New York City, United States.
* December 31 – Porfirio Flores Ayala, politician PRI||former president of Cuernavaca Municipality, Morelos; murdered.