2008 in Mexico

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Incumbents

Federal government

President: Felipe Calderón PAN

Interior Secretary (SEGOB)^[1]
- Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
- Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office)
- Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa^[1]
Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez^[1]
Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota^[1]
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván^[1]
Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza^[1]
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón^[1]
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)^[1]
- Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
- Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres^[1]
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada^[1]
Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova^[1]
Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna^[1]
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens^[1]
Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas^[1]
Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas^[1]
Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez^[1]
Secretary of Economy (SE)^[1]
- Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
- Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza^[1]

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

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: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
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: Silverio Cavazos, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
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: José Natividad González Parás, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
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: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Sonora: Eduardo Bours, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
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

Macrolimosna
June 1–2: Tropical Storm Arthur 2008
July 20–21: Hurricane Dolly 2008
August 3–8: XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008
September: Riots in the La Mesa Prison
September 15: 2008 Morelia grenade attacks
October 6–7: Tropical Storm Marco 2008
November 4: 2008 Mexico City plane crash
November 26: Premios Oye! 2008

Elections

2008 Mexican elections

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

Notable deaths

Gilberto Rincón Gallardo

Juan Camilo Mouriño

January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
January 30 – Marcial Maciel
February 2 – Francisco de Santiago Silva, visual artist
February 11 – Emilio Carballido
February 25 – Alan Ledesma, 30, actor, stomach cancer.
March 22 – Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
April 8 – Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, actress, melanoma.
April 10 – Ernesto Corripio Ahumada
April 14 – Miguel Galvan, 50, actor, renal failure.
May 8 – Leopoldo Juárez Urbina, politician (Convergence), former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.^[3]^[4]^[5]
May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.^[6]
June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered^{[nb 1]}^[7]
June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.^[8]^[9]
July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (born 1955)
July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
July 30 – Alejandro Aura
August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician PRD, municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.^[10]^[11]
September 29 – Miguel Córcega, 78, actor and director, stroke.
October 4 – Servando González
October 8 – Salvador Vergara Cruz, politician PRI, municipal president of Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico; murdered.^[12]
November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
December 2 – Carlos Abascal
December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)

Notes

[1]
Angulo Torres was kidnapped with his brother at a restaurant on 4 June 2008. His body has not been found and he is not reported as dead.

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