2002 in Mexico

2002 in Mexico
Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Vicente Fox
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman
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
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Leticia Navarro
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel
Governors
Aguascalientes: Felipe González González
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño,
Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García
Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez
Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña
Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks
Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros
Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto
Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas
State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel
Michoacán
Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí (date not available)
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (date not available)
Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez .
Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond
Oaxaca: José Murat Casab
Puebla: Melquíades Morales
Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera
Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz
San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
Sonora: Armando López Nogales
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz , starting January 1
Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal
Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Events
January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta
October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
Richard Joel Noriega
Popular culture
March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.
Sports
Primera División de México Verano 2002
Primera División de México Apertura 2002
Music
Film
Documentaries
Gabriel Orozco
Niños de la calle
Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
Acosada (De piel de víbora)
Fiction
Amar te duele
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras)
El crimen del padre Amaro
eXXXorcismos
Francisca (... De qué lado estás?)
El gavilán de la sierra
La habitación azul
Seres humanos
El tigre de Santa Julia
Una de dos
La virgen de la lujuria
Literature
TV
Notable deaths
January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914)
October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)
October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer
November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician
November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).
References
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2000s in Mexico
Mexico
Years of the 21st century in Mexico