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2008 in Mexico

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2008 in Mexico

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This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: Felipe Calderón PAN Main article: Cabinet of Mexico

  • Interior Secretary (SEGOB)

    • 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

  • Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez

  • Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota

  • Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván

  • Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza

  • Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón

  • Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)

    • Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
    • Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9

  • Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres

  • Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada

  • Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova

  • Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna

  • Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens

  • Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1

  • Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas

  • Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas

  • Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez

  • Secretary of Economy (SE)

    • Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
    • Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6

  • Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza

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).
  • 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

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  • 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

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

  • Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
  • Order of the Aztec Eagle
  • National Prize for Arts and Sciences
  • National Public Administration Prize
  • Ohtli Award
    • Eliseo Medina
    • David Coss
    • Monica C. Lozano
    • Patricia Torres-Ray

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.
  • May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
  • June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.
  • June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murderedAngulo 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.
  • June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
  • July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
  • December 2 – Carlos Abascal
  • December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)

Notes

References

References

  1. (Feb 6, 2018). "Este fue el gabinete de Felipe Calderón". Capital México.
  2. "Marco Antonio Adame Castillo".
  3. Magaña, Javier. (10 May 2011). "Impunidad y muerte tienen a comunidad autóctona en estado de sitio". CNNMéxico.
  4. (10 May 2008). "Ejecutan a Leopoldo Juárez; pobladores señalan al alcalde de Cherán y al síndico como responsables". [[La Jornada]].
  5. (9 May 2008). "Se agudiza el conflicto en Cherán; continúa desaparecido el ex alcalde Leopoldo Juárez". [[La Jornada]].
  6. Martínez Eloriiaga, Ernesto. (3 June 2008). "Asesinan al edil de Villa Madero". [[La Jornada]].
  7. (24 February 2010). "Presidentes municipales de Durango están a merced del crimen organizado". [[La Jornada]].
  8. (25 July 2008). "Sicarios ejecutan a exalcalde de Cuatlitlán, en Jalisco". [[Proceso (magazine).
  9. (July 2010). "Ex alcalde de Cuautitlán de García Barragán fue ejecutado". [[El Informador (Mexico)]].
  10. Ordaz, David. (31 January 2011). "Claves: los alcaldes asesinados de México". [[El Economista (Mexico).
  11. Briseño, Héctor. (12 June 2012). "Candidatos del PRD "están en riesgo", dice dirigente". [[La Jornada]].
  12. Wilkinson, Tracy. (8 October 2008). "Killing of Mexico mayor sends message". [[Los Angeles Times]].
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