2005 in Mexico

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Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Vicente Fox PAN

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^[1]
- 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 PAN
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
Baja California Sur
- Leonel Cota Montaño PRD, until April 5.
- Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD, starting April 5.
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
Coahuila
- Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI, until February 15
- Humberto Moreira PRI, starting February 17
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
Guerrero
- René Juárez Cisneros PRI, date not available
- Zeferino Torreblanca PRD, date not available
Hidalgo
- Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI, until March 31
- Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI, starting April 1
Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
State of Mexico
- Arturo Montiel PRI, until September 16
- Enrique Peña Nieto PRI, starting September 16
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN^[2]
Nayarit
- Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
- Ney González Sánchez, starting September
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
Puebla
- Melquíades Morales PRI, until January 31
- Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI, starting February 1
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
Quintana Roo
- Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI, until April 4
- Félix González Canto PRI, starting April 5
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
Tamaulipas
- Tomás Yarrington PRI, until February 1
- Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI, starting February 5
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez PRD

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 3 km (1.9 mi) into the atmosphere and expulsion of lava.

Elections

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

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

Carlos Monsiváis won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes)

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 PRI, former municipal president, Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas;murdered along with wife and two children.^[4]^[5]
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

^ "Perfil: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez" (in Spanish). El Universal. 24 Nov 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
^ Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Para Borja Navarrete, la medalla Belisario". El Universal (in Spanish). 7 Oct 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ Sánchez, Martín (18 January 2005). "Encuentran muertos a ex edil de Soto la Marina y dos de sus hijos". La Jornada (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
^ "Ejecutan a ex alcalde en Tamaulipas". Esmas.com (in Spanish). 18 January 2005. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

External links

[1] "Perfil: Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez" (in Spanish). El Universal. 24 Nov 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2020.

[2] Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[3] "Para Borja Navarrete, la medalla Belisario". El Universal (in Spanish). 7 Oct 2005. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

[4] Sánchez, Martín (18 January 2005). "Encuentran muertos a ex edil de Soto la Marina y dos de sus hijos". La Jornada (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

[5] "Ejecutan a ex alcalde en Tamaulipas". Esmas.com (in Spanish). 18 January 2005. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

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