2005 in Mexico

2005 in Mexico
Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Vicente Fox
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
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur
Leonel Cota Montaño , until April 5.
Narciso Agúndez Montaño , starting April 5.
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas
Coahuila
Enrique Martínez y Martínez , until February 15
Humberto Moreira , starting February 17
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Durango: Ismael Hernández
Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks
Guerrero
René Juárez Cisneros , date not available
Zeferino Torreblanca , date not available
Hidalgo
Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto , until March 31
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , starting April 1
Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas
State of Mexico
Arturo Montiel , until September 16
Enrique Peña Nieto , starting September 16
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez
Nayarit
Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
Ney González Sánchez, starting September
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Puebla
Melquíades Morales , until January 31
Mario Plutarco Marín Torres , starting February 1
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón
Quintana Roo
Joaquín Hendricks Díaz , until April 4
Félix González Canto , starting April 5
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán , until December 31
Sonora: Eduardo Bours
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz , starting January 1
Tamaulipas
Tomás Yarrington , until February 1
Eugenio Hernández Flores , starting February 5
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
Zacatecas: Amalia García
Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez
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 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.
Music
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
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 , 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
References
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