2003 in Mexico

2003 in Mexico
Events in the year 2003 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Vicente Fox
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
Jorge Castañeda Gutman, until January 10
Luis Ernesto Derbez, starting January 15
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
Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR)
Leticia Navarro, until July 29
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, starting July 29
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
Víctor Lichtinger, until June
Alberto Cárdenas, starting June
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón
Governors
Aguascalientes: Felipe González González
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño
Campeche
José Antonio González Curi, until September 15
Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez , starting September 16
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García
Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez
Colima
Fernando Moreno Peña , until October 31
Carlos Flores Dueñas , interim governor November 1-December 31
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: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
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 , until September 30
Francisco Garrido Patrón , starting October 1
Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz
San Luis Potosí
Fernando Silva Nieto, until September 25
Jesús Marcelo de los Santos , Starting September 26
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
Sonora
Armando López Nogales , until September 13
Eduardo Bours , starting September 13
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
Fahrenheit has its first issue published.
The Chiapas Bridge is finished with being constructed.
The México Posible party is founded and dissolved.
January 21: 2003 Colima earthquake.
March 13: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas is created.
June 2: The Escuela Preparatoria Tlalpan II "Otilio Montaño" is inaugurated.
July 5: The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples goes into effect.
July 6: 2003 Mexican legislative election
September: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun.
September 5: Nuestra Belleza México 2003.
September 28: Optibús starts operations.
November 15: Miss Latin America 2004 held in Cancun.
November 27: the Monterrey Arena is opened.
December 9 – 11: The United Nations Convention against Corruption is opened for signing in Mérida, Yucatán.
December 22: Counter-terrorism base Ixtoc-Alfa is founded by the Mexican Navy.
Hurricanes
June 26 – 27: Tropical Storm Carlos (2003)
June 29 – July 2: Tropical Storm Bill (2003)
July 8 – 17: Hurricane Claudette (2003)
August 14 – 17: Hurricane Erika (2003)
August 22 – 27: Hurricane Ignacio (2003)
September 8 – 24: Hurricane Marty (2003)
October 1 – 6: Tropical Storm Larry (2003)
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Luis González y González
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
Marco A. López Jr.
Patricia Madrid
Sport
Primera División de México Clausura 2003
Primera División de México Apertura 2003
Mexico win the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
2003 Centrobasket held in Culiacán
2003 Centrobasket Women
2003 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
2003 Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante
2003 MasterCard Truck Series season
2003 Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2003)
2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Bosnia
2003 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship Culiacan, Sinaloa
2003 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Saltillo, Coahuila
2003 Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
Mexico at the 2003 Pan American Games
2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup from San Diego, California, United States to Tijuana, Baja California.
C.F. Mérida founded.
Tijuana Dragons founded.
Monterrey Fury founded.
Film
List of Mexican films of 2003
Births
January 16 – Adriana Hernández, rhythmic gymnast
May 8 – Joaquín Bondoni, singer, songwriter and actor
September 18 – Ana Galindo, rhythmic gymnast
Deaths
February 11: Socorro Avelar, actress (b. 1925)
June 10: Alfredo Guati Rojo watercolor artist (b. December 1, 1918)
November 1: Humberto Briseño Sierra, Mexican lawyer (b. 1914)
November 6: Eduardo Palomo, actor (Corazón salvaje (1993 TV series)) (b. 1962)
References
Years of the 21st century in Mexico
2000s in Mexico
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