2002 in Mexico

Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Vicente Fox


 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman
 * 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): Leticia Navarro
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
 * Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Felipe González González
 * Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
 * Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño,
 * Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
 * Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
 * Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García
 * Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez
 * Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña
 * Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier
 * Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks
 * Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros
 * Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto
 * Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas
 * State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel
 * Michoacán
 * Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí (date not available)
 * Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (date not available)
 * Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez.
 * Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
 * Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond
 * Oaxaca: José Murat Casab
 * Puebla: Melquíades Morales
 * Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera
 * Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz
 * San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto
 * Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
 * Sonora: Armando López Nogales
 * Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz, starting January 1
 * Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington
 * Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
 * Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco
 * Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
 * Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal


 * Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Events

 * January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
 * February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
 * March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
 * September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
 * October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta
 * October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
 * November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor	– Héctor Fix Zamudio
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
 * Richard Joel Noriega

Popular culture

 * March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
 * May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
 * June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
 * July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.

Sports

 * Primera División de México Verano 2002
 * Primera División de México Apertura 2002

Documentaries

 * Gabriel Orozco
 * Niños de la calle
 * Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
 * Acosada (De piel de víbora)

Fiction

 * Amar te duele
 * Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
 * Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras)
 * El crimen del padre Amaro
 * eXXXorcismos
 * Francisca (... De qué lado estás?)
 * El gavilán de la sierra
 * La habitación azul
 * Seres humanos
 * El tigre de Santa Julia
 * Una de dos
 * La virgen de la lujuria

Notable deaths

 * January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
 * February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
 * April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914)
 * October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)
 * October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer
 * November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician
 * November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
 * December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).