2008 in Mexico

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

Federal government

 * President: Felipe Calderón


 * 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

 * Macrolimosna
 * 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

 * 2008 Mexican elections

Awards

 * 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

Sports

 * Primera División de México Clausura 2008
 * 2008 Primera División de México Apertura
 * 2008 North American SuperLiga
 * 2008 InterLiga
 * 2008 Carrera Panamericana
 * 2008 NASCAR Corona Series season
 * 2008 Rally México
 * 2008 LATAM Challenge Series season
 * 2008 Centrobasket
 * 2008 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
 * 2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
 * Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2008)
 * 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
 * 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guadalajara)
 * 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Turkey
 * 2008 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
 * 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
 * 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships
 * 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
 * Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics
 * Mexico at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Telenovelas

 * Fuego en la Sangre
 * Las Tontas No Van al Cielo
 * Alma de Hierro
 * Querida Enemiga
 * Cuidado con el ángel
 * Juro Que Te Amo
 * Un Gancho al Corazón
 * En Nombre del Amor
 * Mañana Es Para Siempre

Notable deaths

 * 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, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.
 * June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered
 * June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
 * July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician, 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, 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, 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)