2005 in Mexico

Events in the year 2005 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Vicente Fox


 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Ernesto Derbez
 * 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 (date of resignation not available)
 * Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz (date of appointment not available)
 * Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
 * Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, until June 23
 * José Luis Luege Tamargo, starting June 23
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
 * Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)
 * Rafael Macedo de la Concha, until April 27
 * Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, starting April 28

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso
 * Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
 * Baja California Sur
 * Leonel Cota Montaño, until April 5.
 * Narciso Agúndez Montaño, starting April 5.
 * Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez
 * Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
 * Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas
 * Coahuila
 * Enrique Martínez y Martínez, until February 15
 * Humberto Moreira, starting February 17
 * Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes
 * Durango: Ismael Hernández
 * Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks
 * Guerrero
 * René Juárez Cisneros, date not available
 * Zeferino Torreblanca, date not available
 * Hidalgo
 * Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto, until March 31
 * Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, starting April 1
 * Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas
 * State of Mexico
 * Arturo Montiel, until September 16
 * Enrique Peña Nieto, starting September 16
 * Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
 * Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez
 * Nayarit
 * Antonio Echevarría Domínguez, until September
 * Ney González Sánchez, starting September
 * Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond
 * Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
 * Puebla
 * Melquíades Morales, until January 31
 * Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, starting February 1
 * Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón
 * Quintana Roo
 * Joaquín Hendricks Díaz, until April 4
 * Félix González Canto, starting April 5
 * San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos
 * Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán, until December 31
 * Sonora: Eduardo Bours
 * Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz, starting January 1
 * Tamaulipas
 * Tomás Yarrington, until February 1
 * Eugenio Hernández Flores, starting February 5
 * Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
 * Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán
 * Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco
 * Zacatecas: Amalia García
 * Head of Government of the Federal District: Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez

Events

 * CUMEX is formed.
 * The Socialist Alliance (Mexico) is formed.
 * The Centro de Investigaciones Cientifícas de las Huastecas 'Aguazarca' is founded.
 * January 30 – New Alliance Party founded.
 * March 23 – The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is signed by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States in Waco, Texas.
 * March 29 – Ariel Award in 2005
 * April 7 – The Chamber of Deputies votes to lift Andrés Manuel López Obrador's constitutional immunity against prosecution (desafuero).
 * April 16–17 – National Assembly of the Socialist Left
 * May 8 – 2005 Denver police officer shooting
 * June 8: Alejandro Domínguez Coello is murdered.
 * July 18 – Hurricane Emily (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
 * September 2 – Nuestra Belleza México 2005
 * September 8 – The Mexican Army is received with honors at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas in response to Hurricane Katrina.
 * October 4 – Hurricane Stan (category 1) hits the state of Veracruz.
 * October 21 – Hurricane Wilma (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula.
 * November 4 – Start of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas.
 * November 7 – radio program El Weso starts airing.
 * November 10 – Beginning of the 2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis.
 * December 9 – the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Program was signed between by Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Central America.
 * December 25 — The Popocateptl volcano's crater produced an explosion which ejected a large column of smoke and ash about 3 km into the atmosphere and expulsion of lava.

Elections

 * 2005 Coahuila state election
 * 2005 Colima gubernatorial election
 * 2005 State of Mexico election

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor	- Gilberto Borja Navarrete
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Marylou Olivarez Mason
 * Miguel D. Wise
 * Blanca Alvarado
 * Ruben Barrales

Sports

 * Primera División de México Clausura 2005
 * Primera División de México Apertura 2005
 * 2005 InterLiga
 * Fútbol Americano
 * 2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
 * 2005 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate
 * 2005 Desafío Corona season
 * 2005 Rally México
 * 2005 Caribbean Series in Mazatlán
 * Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2005)
 * 2005 IIHF World Championship Division III won by Mexico in Mexico.

Film

 * March 29 – The XLVII edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
 * November 4 – La mujer de mi hermano

Telenovelas

 * July 18 – Amor en custodia on TV Azteca
 * July 18 – La esposa virgen on Televisa
 * September 26 – El Amor No Tiene Precio on Televisa
 * October 3 – Machos on TV Azteca

Notable deaths

 * January 5 – Eduardo Hay (89), International Olympic Committee
 * January 14 – Ofelia Guilmain (83), Spanish -born film and stage actress
 * January 18 – Teodoro Herrera Sosa, politician, former municipal president, Soto la Marina, Tamaulipas;murdered along with wife and two children.
 * January 22 – Consuelo Velázquez (88), songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song Bésame Mucho
 * February 24 – Gustavo Vázquez Montes (42), incumbent governor of Colima
 * March 27 – Rigo Tovar (58), popular singer and composer
 * April 10 – Raúl Gibb Guerrero (53), newspaper editor
 * April 16 – Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla (39), journalist
 * April 16 – Jaime Fernández (67), actor
 * April 29 – Mariana Levy (39), actress
 * May 5 – Édgar Ponce (30), actor
 * June 5 – Oscar Morelli (59), actor
 * June 5 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (55), scholar, diplomat and politician
 * June 8 – Alejandro Domínguez (52), chief of police of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
 * July 2 – Martin Sanchez (26), boxer
 * July 6 – Marga López (81), Argentine -born screen and television actress
 * August 6 – Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (86), trade union leader
 * September 21 – Ramón Martín Huerta (48), minister of public security of the federal government
 * November 6 – Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela (87), lawyer and professor