This is a list of events that happened in 2009 in Mexico . The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.
Incumbents
Federal government
Supreme Court
Governors
Aguascalientes : Luis Armando Reynoso , (National Action Party , PAN)Baja California : José Guadalupe Osuna Millán , (PAN)Baja California Sur : Narciso Agúndez Montaño (Party of the Democratic Revolution , PRD)Campeche
Chiapas : Juan Sabines Guerrero , (Coalition for the Good of All )Chihuahua : José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (Institutional Revolutionary Party , PRI)Coahuila : Humberto Moreira Valdés , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Colima :
Durango : Ismael Hernández , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Guanajuato : Juan Manuel Oliva , (National Action Party , PAN)Guerrero : René Juárez Cisneros , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Hidalgo : Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Jalisco : Emilio González Márquez , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)State of Mexico : Enrique Pena Nieto , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Michoacán : Lázaro Cárdenas Batel , (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February); Leonel Godoy Rangel (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)Morelos : Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).[ 2] Nayarit : Ney González Sánchez Nuevo León :
Oaxaca : Ulises Ruiz Ortiz , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Puebla : Mario Marín Torres , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Querétaro : Francisco Garrido Patrón (National Action Party , PAN)Quintana Roo : Félix González Canto , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)San Luis Potosí :
Sinaloa : Jesús Aguilar Padilla , (Institutional Revolutionary Party , PRI)Sonora :
Tabasco : Andrés Rafael Granier Melo , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Tamaulipas : Eugenio Hernández Flores , (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Tlaxcala : Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (National Action Party , PAN)Veracruz : Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Yucatán : Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)Zacatecas : Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)Head of Government of the Federal District : Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)
Events
United States President Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderon following their meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009. January– A Swine flu pandemic occur right after the U.S. first case of the Flu .
February 11 – Mexico 's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City.[ 3]
March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot : A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez , Mexico , kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.[ 4]
March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo , Coahuila , Mexico.[ 5]
April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.[ 6]
April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit , Mexico.[ 7]
April 25 – Mexico 's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza .[ 8]
April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake : A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo , Guerrero , Mexico.[ 9]
May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas , Mexico.[ 10]
May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia , Puebla , Mexico.[ 11]
June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire : a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo , Mexico.[ 12]
July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico .[ 13]
July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election .[ 14]
August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude , hit northwestern Mexico .[ 15]
August 7 – 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings : Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since Mexico 's continuing national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.[ 16]
August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat .[ 17]
August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.[ 18]
August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana , cocaine , heroin and other drugs for "personal use".[ 19]
September 9 – Aeroméxico Flight 576 , a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún , and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport .[ 20]
September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico .[ 21]
December 16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva , leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel , is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos .[ 22]
December 21 – Mexico City 's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption .[ 23]
December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of Expresiones de Tulum Alberto Velázquez , the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2009, is announced.[ 24]
Awards
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Notable deaths
Ricardo Montalbán January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos , 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia .[ 25]
January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán , 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [ 26]
February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician PRI , president of Otáez Municipality , Durango; murdered.[ 27] [ 28]
February 7 – Jorge Reyes , 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.[ 29]
February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician PRD , former president of Petatlán (municipality) , Guerrero: murdered.[ 30]
February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician PRI , municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán ; murdered.[ 31] [ 32]
March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo , 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico .[ 33]
March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||Tancítaro , Michoacán||[ 34] [ 35]
March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician PRI , former president of Tecpan de Galeana , Guerrero; murdered.[ 36]
March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena , 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).[ 37]
March 22 – Abismo Negro , 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler , drowned .[ 38]
March 23 – Raúl Macías , 74, Mexican boxer , cancer.[ 39]
March 26 – Griselda Álvarez , 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes .[ 40]
April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician PRI , former municipal president of Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán ; murdered.[ 41] [ 42]
April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD , candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.[ 43] [ 44]
April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality) , Guerrero; murdered.[ 45]
April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín , 64, Mexican archaeologist , curator of the National Anthropology Museum , cardiac arrest.[ 46]
April 30 – Amparo Arozamena , 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.[ 47]
May 5 – Manuel Capetillo , bullfighter , singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
May 5 – Benjamín Flores , 24, Mexican boxer , brain injury during a match.[ 48]
June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician PAN , president of Ocampo Municipality ; murdered.[ 49] [ 50]
June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician PRI , former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya , Michoacán; murdered.[ 51] [ 52]
June 23 — Manuel Saval , 53, actor (b. 1956)
July 14
Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician PAN , president of Namiquipa Municipality , Chihuahua; murdered.[ 53] [ 54]
Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.[ 55]
July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg , 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes .[ 56]
July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth , 23, Mexican boxer , cerebral hemorrhage .[ 57]
August 20
August 29 – Yolanda Varela , 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes .[ 60]
September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes , 43, politician; shot .[ 61]
October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua ; murdered.[ 62]
October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician PRI , former municipal president of Tiquicheo , Michoacán; murdered.[ 63]
October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez , 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya .[ 64]
November 6 – Manuel Arvizu , 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar .[ 65]
November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada , 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA .[ 66]
November 16 – Antonio de Nigris , 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.[ 67]
November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez , 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones , natural causes .[ 68]
December 4: Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano ), (b. 1926)[ 69]
December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas , Mexican archeologist .[ 70]
December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva , 48, Mexican drug lord , shot .[ 71]
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