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
Federal government
- 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
- 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
January
February
- 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
- March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.
 
April
- 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
- 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
July
August
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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


- 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
References
Footnotes
- ^ 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
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 - ^ "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.
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 - ^ "¿Quién era Benjamín Galván Gómez?". Milenio (in Spanish). 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
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 - ^ "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.
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