2007 in Mexico

2007 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2007 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Felipe Calderón
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez
Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota
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
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Beatriz Zavala
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova
Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens
Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas
Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA)
German Martínez Cázares, until November 8
Salvador Vega Casillas, starting November 8
Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez
Secretary of Economy (SE): Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia
Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez
Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, Coalition for the Good of All
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas
Coahuila: Humberto Moreira
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes
Durango: Ismael Hernández
Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva
Guerrero: Zeferino Torreblanca
Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Jalisco: Gerardo Solís Gómez , substitute governor
State of Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón
Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos
Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla
Sonora: Eduardo Bours
Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo , starting January 1
Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
Zacatecas: Amalia García
Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard
Events
The Tortilla Price Stabilization Pact is agreed on.
January 2: Operation Baja California
January 11: The government of the state of Coahuila approves a Civil Solidarity Pact ("Pacto Civil de Solidaridad") that permits same sex civil unions statewide. Becoming the second local government to permit same-sex civil unions in Mexico.
April 20–26: 2007 tornado outbreak sequence
May 28: Miss Universe 2007
June 15: Miss Latin America 2007
September 20: 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures
October: 2007 Tabasco flood
October 6: Nuestra Belleza México 2007
October 21: Kab 101
Hurricanes
May 29 – June 2: Tropical Storm Barbara (2007)
August 13–27: Hurricane Dean Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico
August 30 – September 6: Hurricane Henriette (2007)
September 25–27: Hurricane Lorenzo (2007)
October 15–23: Tropical Storm Kiko (2007)
Elections
2007 Mexican elections
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Carlos Castillo Peraza (post mortem)
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
José Cisneros
Gerald Richard Barnes
Popular culture
Sports
Primera División de México Clausura 2007
Primera División de México Apertura 2007
2007 North American SuperLiga
2007 InterLiga
2007 Recopa Sudamericana
2007 Copa Sudamericana
Copa Pachuca 2006
2007 Rally México
2007 NASCAR Corona Series season
2007 Gran Premio Tecate
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2007)
2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship
2007 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
World Chess Championship 2007
Mexico at the 2007 Pan American Games
Mexican football transfers 2006–07
Music
Film
List of 2007 box office number-one films in Mexico
January 12 – Fuera del cielo
February 16 – Morirse en domingo
March 2 – J-ok'el
March 9 – Niñas mal
March 13 – La última mirada
March 30 – Cuando las cosas suceden
May 18 – J.C. Chávez
Literature
TV
Notable deaths
January 2 – Sergio Jiménez, actor
January 17 – Juan Reynoso Portillo
January 20 – Alfredo Ripstein
February 7 – Antonio Enríquez Savignac
March 8 – Black Shadow
March 12 – Antonio Ortiz Mena, economist and politician, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank
March 16 – Pablo Emilio Madero
March 20 – Albert Baez
May 4 – José Antonio Roca
June 19 – Antonio Aguilar
June 19 – Enrique Canales
July 4 – José Roberto Espinosa
August 7 – Ernesto Alonso, actor, director, cinematographer, producer, pneumonia.
October 2 – José Antonio Ríos Granados
November 29 – Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldúa, politician, former municipal president, Senator, and Deputy, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas; murdered.
December 3 – Sergio Gómez, lead vocalist for K-Paz de la Sierra, murdered.
See also
2007 Tabasco flood
References
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