2003 in Mexico

Events in the year 2003 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Vicente Fox


 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
 * Jorge Castañeda Gutman, until January 10
 * Luis Ernesto Derbez, starting January 15
 * 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
 * Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR)
 * Leticia Navarro, until July 29
 * Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, starting July 29
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
 * Víctor Lichtinger, until June
 * Alberto Cárdenas, starting June
 * 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
 * Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
 * Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño
 * Campeche
 * José Antonio González Curi, until September 15
 * Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, starting September 16
 * Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
 * Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García
 * Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez
 * Colima
 * Fernando Moreno Peña, until October 31
 * Carlos Flores Dueñas, interim governor November 1-December 31
 * 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: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
 * 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, until September 30
 * Francisco Garrido Patrón, starting October 1
 * Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz
 * San Luis Potosí
 * Fernando Silva Nieto, until September 25
 * Jesús Marcelo de los Santos, Starting September 26
 * Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
 * Sonora
 * Armando López Nogales, until September 13
 * Eduardo Bours, starting September 13
 * 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

 * Fahrenheit has its first issue published.
 * The Chiapas Bridge is finished with being constructed.
 * The México Posible party is founded and dissolved.
 * January 21: 2003 Colima earthquake.
 * February 18: The State of Mexico votes in a referendum on the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.
 * March 13: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas is created.
 * June 2: The Escuela Preparatoria Tlalpan II "Otilio Montaño" is inaugurated.
 * July 5: The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples goes into effect.
 * July 6: 2003 Mexican legislative election
 * September: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun.
 * September 5: Nuestra Belleza México 2003.
 * September 28: Optibús starts operations.
 * November 15: Miss Latin America 2004 held in Cancun.
 * November 27: the Monterrey Arena is opened.
 * December 9 – 11: The United Nations Convention against Corruption is opened for signing in Mérida, Yucatán.
 * December 22: Counter-terrorism base Ixtoc-Alfa is founded by the Mexican Navy.

Hurricanes

 * June 26 – 27: Tropical Storm Carlos (2003)
 * June 29 – July 2: Tropical Storm Bill (2003)
 * July 8 – 17: Hurricane Claudette (2003)
 * August 14 – 17: Hurricane Erika (2003)
 * August 22 – 27: Hurricane Ignacio (2003)
 * September 8 – 24: Hurricane Marty (2003)
 * October 1 – 6: Tropical Storm Larry (2003)

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor	- Luis González y González
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Marco A. López Jr.
 * Patricia Madrid

Sport

 * Primera División de México Clausura 2003
 * Primera División de México Apertura 2003
 * Mexico win the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
 * 2003 Centrobasket held in Culiacán
 * 2003 Centrobasket Women
 * 2003 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
 * 2003 Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante
 * 2003 MasterCard Truck Series season
 * 2003 Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix
 * Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (2003)
 * 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Bosnia
 * 2003 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship Culiacan, Sinaloa
 * 2003 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Saltillo, Coahuila
 * 2003 Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
 * Mexico at the 2003 Pan American Games
 * 2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup from San Diego, California, United States to Tijuana, Baja California.
 * C.F. Mérida founded.
 * Tijuana Dragons founded.
 * Monterrey Fury founded.

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 2003

Births

 * January 16 – Adriana Hernández, rhythmic gymnast
 * May 8 – Joaquín Bondoni, singer, songwriter and actor
 * September 18 – Ana Galindo, rhythmic gymnast

Deaths

 * February 11: Socorro Avelar, actress (b. 1925)
 * June 10: Alfredo Guati Rojo watercolor artist (b. December 1, 1918)
 * November 1: Humberto Briseño Sierra, Mexican lawyer (b. 1914)
 * November 6: Eduardo Palomo, actor (Corazón salvaje (1993 TV series)) (b. 1962)