2004 in Mexico
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of events that happened in 2004 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- 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
- Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Alberto Cárdenas
- 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 PAN, until August 25
- Juan José León Rubio, Interim governor, August 25–November 30[1]
- Luis Armando Reynoso PAN, starting December 1
- Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
- Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño PRD
- Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI
- Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
- Chihuahua
- Patricio Martínez García PRI, until October 3
- José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI, starting October 4
- Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI
- Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI, starting January 1
- Durango
- Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier PRI, until September 14
- Ismael Hernández PRI, starting September 15
- Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
- Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros PRI
- Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI
- Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
- State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel PRI
- Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
- Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN[2]
- Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
- Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
- Oaxaca
- José Murat Casab PRI, until November 30
- Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI, starting December 1
- Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI
- Querétaro
- Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN, until September 30
- Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN, starting October 1
- Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI
- San Luis Potosí
- Fernando Silva Nieto, until September 25
- Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN, starting September 26
- Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
- Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
- Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
- Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington PRI
- Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
- Veracruz
- Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI, until November 30
- Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI, starting December 1
- Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
- Zacatecas
- Ricardo Monreal PRD, until September 11
- Amalia García PRD, starting September 12
- Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD
Events
- Videoscandals
- The Desafuero of Manuel López Obrador
- The Vallarta Botanical Gardens are founded.
- The new Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca gets inaugurated.
- The National Institute of Genomic Medicine INMEGEN is founded.
- January 12–13: Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas
- March 30: Ariel Award ceremony at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
- April 30: the Avena case is decided.
- May 13: 2004 Mexican UFO incident
- May 23: The Comando Jaramillista Morelense 23 de Mayo bomb 3 banks in Cuernavaca, Morelos,
- September 10–20: Hurricane Javier (2004)
- September 11: Nuestra Belleza México 2004
- December 26: 3 Mexicans are among the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Elections
Awards
Sport
- Primera División de México Clausura 2004
- Primera División de México Apertura 2004
- 2004 InterLiga
- 2004 Desafío Corona season
- 2004 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate
- Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2004)
- Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Mexico at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- 2004 World Karate Championships in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
- 2004 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
- 2004 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in Mexicali and Tijuana, Baja California.
- 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana.
- 2004 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in Coatzacoalcos
- The Bravos de Nuevo Laredo, Búhos de Hermosillo, Vaqueros de Ixtlan CF and the Azucareros de Tezonapa are founded.
Deaths
- February 17 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico 1976-1982 (b. 1920)[4]
- August 18 — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician (PRI); Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001 (b. 1936)