2014 in Mexico
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This is a list of events that happened in 2014 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Antonio Meade
- Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
- Education Secretary (SEP): Emilio Chuayffet
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
- Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida
- Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR): Rosario Robles
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Claudia Ruiz Massieu
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan José Guerra Abud
- Secretary of Health (SALUD): Mercedes Juan López
- Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP): Luis Videgaray Caso
Governors
[edit]- Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre, PRI[1]
- Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid PAN
- Baja California Sur: Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor PAN[2]
- Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés, PAN
- Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello PVEM
- Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez PRI
- Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez PRI
- Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno PRI
- Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera PRI
- Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez PAN
- Guerrero
- Ángel Aguirre Rivero PRD, until October 23[a]
- Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor starting October 27
- Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz PRI
- Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval PRI
- State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRI
- Michoacán
- Fausto Vallejo PRI, until June 19[b][4]
- Salvador Jara Guerrero, Substitute starting June 20[5]
- Morelos: Graco Ramírez PRD.[6]
- Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda PRI
- Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz PRI
- Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo MC[7]
- Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas PAN[8]
- Querétaro: José Calzada PRI[9]
- Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo PRI
- San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández PRI
- Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez PAN
- Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías PAN
- Tabasco: Eruviel Ávila Villegas PRD
- Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú PRI[10]
- Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur PRI
- Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
- Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello PRI
- Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes PRI
- Head of Government of the Federal District: Miguel Ángel Mancera PRD
Events
[edit]January
[edit]February
[edit]- February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years.[11]
March
[edit]- March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.
April
[edit]- April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
- April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero.[12][13]
May
[edit]- May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.
June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]- 27 August–September: CENAPRED reported explosions of Popocateptl, accompanied by steam-and-gas emissions with minor ash and ash plumes that rose 800-3,000 m above the volcano's crater, which drifted west, southwest, and west-southwest. On most nights incandescence was observed, increasing during times with larger emissions.
- 29 and 31 August 2014: The Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported discrete ash emissions from Popocateptl.
September
[edit]- September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
- September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
- September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
- September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers.[14]
October
[edit]- October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa.[15]
- October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.
November
[edit]- November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
- November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
- November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
- November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
- November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
- November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
- November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.
December
[edit]- December 2 – The number of Chikungunya cases in Chiapas increases from 14 to 39 in one week. Between 17,000 and 18,000 cases have been reported by the Pan American Health Organization.[16]
Awards
[edit]- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Eraclio Zepeda[17]
- Order of the Aztec Eagle
- José Mujica, President of Uruguay[18]
- National Public Administration Prize
- Ohtli Award
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences[19]
- Linguistics and literature – María de los Dolores Castro Varela and Eraclio Zepeda Ramos
- Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz and Mauricio Hernández Ávila
- History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy – Néstor García Canclini and Enrique Semo Calev
- Technology and Design – José Mauricio López Romero
- Popular Arts and Traditions – Carlomagno Pedro Martínez and Alberto Vargas Castellano
- Fine arts – Arnaldo José Coen Ávila
Deaths
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- January 23 – Miguel Ángel Guzmán Garduño, journalist (Vértice) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero; killed.[20]
- January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, notable writer.
- February 5 – Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, journalist (Notisur & Liberal del Sur) in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; killed.[21]
- February 16 – Omar Reyes Fabiánjournalist (Oaxaca Tiempo) in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca; killed.[22]
- February 28 – Benjamín Galván Gómez, journalist (Última Hora & Primera Hora) in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.[23][24]
- June 2 – Jorge Torres Palacios, journalist (El Dictamen de Guerrero) in Acapulco, Guerrero; killed.[25]
- July 14 – Antonio Riva Palacio, politician PRI, Governor of Morelos (1988-1994), Ambassador to Ecuador (b. 1926)
- July 30 – Nolberto Herrera Rodríguez, journalist (Canal 9) in Guadalupe, Zacatecas; killed.[26]
- August 12 – Murder of Octavio Rojas Hernández: Journalist (El Buen Tono) in Cosolapa Oaxaca; killed.[27]
- August 21 – Marlén Valdez García, journalist (La Última Palabra) in Juárez, Nuevo León; killed.[28][29]
- August 27 – Adrián Gaona Belmonte, journalist (La Comadrita 97.3 FM Radio) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.[29][30]
- September 3 – Víctor Pérez Pérez, journalist (Sucesos) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; killed.[31]
- October 12 – Octavio Atilano Román Tirado, journalist (ABC Radio) in Mazatlán, Sinaloa; killed.[32]
- September 23 (approx.) – Gabriel Gómez Michel, politician PRI, Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from Zacatecas.[33]
- October 16 – María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, journalist (Valor por Tamaulipas) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.[34][35]
- October 22 – Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, journalist (Nueva Prensa) in Los Mochis, Sinaloa; killed.[36]
- November 28 – Chespirito "Roberto Gómez Bolaños", actor and writer.
- December 15 — Fausto Zapata, lawyer, politician PRI, diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991
See also
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References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Governor Aguirre Rivero resigned after allegations of his involvement in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping.
- ^ Governor Vallejo resigned for health reasons after his son was accused of having ties to drug dealers.[3]
Citations
[edit]- ^ "El Universal - - Entregan constancia de mayoría a Lozano". archivo.eluniversal.com.mx (in Spanish). July 11, 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "April 2011". Rulers. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^ "Fausto Vallejo renuncia a la gubernatura de Michoacán tras 22 meses de un mandato manchado de corrupción". SinEmbargo MX (in Spanish). 18 June 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ "La accidentada gubernatura de Fausto Vallejo". www.milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Milenio. June 6, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ Castellanos J, Francisco (21 June 2014). "Salvador Jara, nuevo gobernador de Michoacán; ofrece trabajar "de la mano de Peña"". Proceso Portal de Noticias (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ^ Redacción Uno (20 August 2020). "Graco Ramírez, exgobernador de Morelos, enfrentaría juicio político". Uno TV (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "PRI loses Oaxaca, takes PAN states - Mexico - The News". The News. 15 August 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "Recibe Moreno Valle constancia de mayoría como gobernador electo | Milenio.com" (in Spanish). Milenio. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-07-15. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "Los últimos nueve Gobernadores del Estado de Querétaro. timeline". Timetoast (in Spanish). Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "Asume Egidio Torre Cantú el cargo de Gobernador Constitucional - Gobi…". archive.is (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 14 November 2014. Retrieved Sep 11, 2020.
- ^ Zaccardi, Nick (2 January 2014). "Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe of Mexico will be second oldest Winter Olympian ever". NBC Olympic Talk. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ (USGS)
- ^ "Wide area of Mexico hit by earthquake; preliminary magnitude put at 7.2". Los Angeles Times. 18 April 2014.
- ^ Gorton, Thomas (6 October 2014). "Mayor accused as 43 student protesters go missing in Mexico". Dazed. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ^ "Mass graves with charred victims found in southern Mexico". Reuters. 5 October 2014.
- ^ "Se triplican los casos de Chikungunya en Chiapas". Excélsior (in Spanish). 2 December 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ^ "Senado entrega Medalla Belisario Domínguez 2014 a Eraclio Zepeda". Animal Político (in Spanish). 15 December 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "Mujica fue condecorado por el presidente mexicano - Diario La República" (in European Spanish). La Republica. 28 January 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^ "Estos son los 10 ganadores del Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes 2014". Animal Político (in Spanish). 15 October 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "Asesinan a periodista en Guerrero" (in Spanish). Reforma. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ "Encuentran cuerpo de periodista secuestrado". Milenio (in Spanish). 11 February 2014. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- ^ De León, Flor. "Omar Reyes Fabián" (in Spanish). Nuestra Aparente Rendición. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- ^ "¿Quién era Benjamín Galván Gómez?". Milenio (in Spanish). 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^ Palacios, Raúl (3 April 2014). "En Nuevo León blindan la frontera con Tamaulipas". Milenio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^ Flores Contreras, Ezequiel (3 June 2014). "Exigen a la PGR atraer caso de periodista asesinado en Guerrero" (in Spanish). Proceso. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ^ "Asesinan a periodista en su casa en Zacatecas" (in Spanish). El Universal (Mexico City). EFE. 30 July 2014. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
- ^ Matías, Pedro (14 August 2014). "Ejecutan en Oaxaca a funcionario y corresponsal del diario 'El Buen Tono'" (in Spanish). Proceso. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ "Asesinan a puñaladas a reportera en Nuevo León" (in Spanish). Zócalo Saltillo. 21 August 2014. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ a b Espinosa, Verónica (9 September 2014). "Repudian en Guanajuato y Colima agresión contra reportera" (in Spanish). Proceso. Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
- ^ "Asesinan a locutor en Reynosa; Cártel del Golfo se deslinda" (in Spanish). Proceso. 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 28 August 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ Fierro, Luis (3 September 2014). "Asesinan a periodista en su casa en Chihuahua" (in Spanish). El Universal (Mexico City). Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
- ^ "Asesinan a Atilano Román en Mazatlán" (in Spanish). Organización Editorial Mexicana. El Sol de Mazatlán. 12 October 2014. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Kidnapped congressman's body found in western Mexico | Fox News Latino". EFE. 23 September 2014. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014. Retrieved Sep 11, 2020.
- ^ Alexander, Harriet (23 October 2014). "Mexican citizen journalist has her own murder posted on her Twitter account". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015.
- ^ "Asesinan a 'tuitera'; reportaba balaceras en Reynosa" (in Spanish). El Universal (Mexico City). Red Política. 16 October 2014. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014.
- ^ "Localizan sin vida a periodista de Los Mochis" (in Spanish). Noroeste. 22 October 2014. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
