2011 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2011 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Federal government

 * President: Felipe Calderón


 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB)
 * Francisco Blake Mora, until November 11 (died in office)
 * Alejandro Poiré Romero, starting November 17
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
 * Communications Secretary (SCT)
 * Juan Molinar Horcasitas, until January 7
 * Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, starting January 7
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Alonso Lujambio
 * 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, until December 14
 * Rosalinda Vélez Juárez, starting December 14
 * Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Heriberto Félix Guerra
 * Secretary of Public Education (SEP):
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD)
 * José Ángel Córdova, until September 9
 * Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, starting September 9
 * Secretary of Energy (SENER)
 * José Antonio Meade, until September 9
 * Jordy Herrera Flores, starting September 9
 * Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)
 * Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, until September 9
 * José Antonio Meade, starting September 9
 * Secretary of Economy (SE): Bruno Ferrari García de Alba
 * Secretariat of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre
 * Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán
 * Baja California Sur
 * Narciso Agúndez Montaño, until April 5.
 * Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor, starting April 5.
 * Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés
 * Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
 * Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez
 * Coahuila
 * Humberto Moreira, until January 4
 * Jorge Torres López, January 4–November 30
 * Rubén Moreira, starting December 1
 * Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno
 * Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera
 * Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva
 * Guerrero
 * Zeferino Torreblanca, until March 31
 * Ángel Aguirre Rivero, starting April 1
 * Hidalgo
 * Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
 * Francisco Olvera Ruiz
 * Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez
 * State of Mexico
 * Enrique Peña Nieto, until September 16
 * Eruviel Ávila Villegas, starting September 16
 * Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel
 * Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame.
 * Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
 * Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz
 * Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo, Convergence
 * Puebla
 * Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, until January 31
 * Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, starting February 1
 * Querétaro: José Calzada
 * Quintana Roo
 * Félix González Canto, until April 4
 * Roberto Borge Angulo, starting April 5
 * San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández
 * Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, starting January 1
 * Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías
 * Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo
 * Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú, starting January 1
 * Tlaxcala
 * Héctor Ortiz Ortiz, untl January 14
 * Mariano González Zarur, starting January 15
 * Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa
 * Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco
 * Zacatecas: Amalia García
 * Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

January–March

 * January
 * January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
 * January 14 – Mexican Drug War: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.
 * January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
 * January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.
 * February
 * February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
 * February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
 * February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
 * February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
 * February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
 * March
 * March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.

April–June

 * April
 * April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.


 * May
 * May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.


 * June
 * June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.

July–September

 * July
 * July 3
 * State elections in the State of Mexico.
 * State elections in Nayarit.
 * Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.


 * August
 * August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.
 * August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
 * August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.


 * September

October–December

 * October
 * November
 * November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.


 * December

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solorzano
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Alexander Gonzalez
 * Charlie Gonzalez
 * Carlos Gutierrez
 * Salud Carbajal
 * Francisco G. Cigarroa
 * Paddy Moloney
 * Mel Martínez
 * David J. Schmidly
 * Richard A. Tapia
 * Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
 * Edward James Olmos

January to June

 * January 5 – Saúl Vara Rivera, politician, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila; shot. (body found on this date)
 * January 11
 * Abraham Ortíz Rosales, politician, Mayor of Temoac, Morelos; shot.
 * Susana Chávez, poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
 * January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec; shot.
 * February 4 – Juan Carlos Guardado Méndez, politician, former municipal president of Fresnillo, Zacatecas; murdered.
 * February 9 – Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno, journalist (Grupo Multimedios Laguna), Torreón, Coahuila; killed.
 * February 12 – Saturnino Valdez Llanos, politician ||, municipal president of Tampico Alto, Veracruz; murdered.
 * February 22 – 	José Luis Prieto Torres, politician, former president of Allende Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
 * February 28 – Enrique Chávez Gómez, politician, former candidate for municipal president of Saucillo, Chihuahua; murdered.
 * March 10 – Mario Chuc Aguilar, politician, former municipal president of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo; murdered.
 * March 25 – José Luis Cerda Meléndez & Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, journalists (La Prensa), Guadalupe, Nuevo León; killed.
 * April 7 – Enterbio Reyes Bello, politician, former president of Copanatoyac (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
 * May 14 – Silvia Moreno Leal, politician, former president of Balleza Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.
 * May 18 – Fernando Duarte Flores, politician, former municipal president of Hidalgo, Coahuila; murdered.
 * May 31 – Noel López Olguín, journalist (La Verdad de Jáltipan), Chinameca, Veracruz; killed.
 * June 7 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.
 * June 14 – Pablo Ruelas Barraza, journalist (Diario del Yaqui & El Regional de Sonora), Huatabampo, Sonora; killed.
 * June 20 – Miguel Ángel López Velasco, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz; killed.
 * June 24 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician, former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango, Puebla; murdered.

July to December

 * July 3 – Ángel Castillo Corona, journalist (Puntual and Diario de México), Ocuilan State of Mexico; killed.
 * July 21 – Ernesto Cornejo Valenzuela, politician, former candidate for deputy; state delegate for the PAN in Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora; murdered.
 * July 26 – Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, journalist (Notiver), Veracruz, Veracruz; killed.
 * July 28 – Fortino Cortés Sandoval, politician, municipal president of Florencia de Benito Juárez, Zacatecas; murdered.
 * August 20 – José Eduviges Nava Altamirano, politician, municipal president of Zacualpan, State of Mexico; murdered.
 * August 24 – Luz María García Villagrán, politician, president of Gran Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.||
 * September 1
 * Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist (Contralínea), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
 * Rocío González Trápaga, journalist (Televisa Mexico City), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.
 * September 15 – Gustavo Pacheco Villaseñor, politician, former municipal president of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
 * September 17 – Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, politician ,Deputy from Tlapa de Comonfort (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.
 * September 24 – María Elizabeth Macías Castro, journalist (Primera Hora), Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
 * August 25 – Humberto Millán Salazar, journalist (A Discusión and Radio Fórmula Culiacán), Culiacán, Sinaloa; killed.
 * October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician ; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (b. 1920)
 * November 2 – Ricardo Guzmán Romero, politician, municipal president of La Piedad, Michoacán; murdered.
 * November 19 – Roberto Miguel Galván, politician, former municipal president of Tepetzintla, Veracruz; murdered.
 * December 3 – Hugo César Muruato Flores, journalist (La Caliente 90.9), Chihuahua, Chihuahua; killed.
 * December 12 – Fortunato Ruiz Blázquez, politician, former municipal president of Ixhuacán, Veracruz; murdered.
 * December 21 – José Martínez Mendoza, politician, former municipal president of Cosalá, Sinaloa; murdered.
 * December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011); heart attack.
 * December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor (Zorro series); cancer, died in New York City, United States.
 * December 31 – Porfirio Flores Ayala, politician ||former president of Cuernavaca Municipality, Morelos; murdered.