2014 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2014 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Federal government

 * President: Enrique Peña Nieto


 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): José Antonio Meade
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Emilio Chuayffet
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
 * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida
 * Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR): Rosario Robles
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Claudia Ruiz Massieu
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan José Guerra Abud
 * Secretary of Health (SALUD): Mercedes Juan López
 * Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP): Luis Videgaray Caso

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre,
 * Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid
 * Baja California Sur: Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor
 * Campeche: Fernando Ortega Bernés,
 * Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello
 * Chihuahua: César Duarte Jáquez
 * Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez
 * Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno
 * Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera
 * Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez
 * Guerrero
 * Ángel Aguirre Rivero, until October 23
 * Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor starting October 27
 * Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz
 * Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval
 * State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas
 * Michoacán
 * Fausto Vallejo, until June 19
 * Salvador Jara Guerrero, Substitute starting June 20
 * Morelos: Graco Ramírez.
 * Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda
 * Nuevo León: Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz
 * Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo
 * Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas
 * Querétaro: José Calzada
 * Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo
 * San Luis Potosí: Fernando Toranzo Fernández
 * Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez
 * Sonora: Guillermo Padrés Elías
 * Tabasco: Eruviel Ávila Villegas
 * Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú
 * Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur
 * Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa
 * Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello
 * Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes
 * Head of Government of the Federal District: Miguel Ángel Mancera

February

 * February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years.

March

 * March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.

April

 * April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
 * April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero.

May

 * May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.

August

 * 27 August–September: CENAPRED reported explosions of Popocateptl, accompanied by steam-and-gas emissions with minor ash and ash plumes that rose 800-3,000 m above the volcano's crater, which drifted west, southwest, and west-southwest. On most nights incandescence was observed, increasing during times with larger emissions.
 * 29 and 31 August 2014: The Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported discrete ash emissions from Popocateptl.

September

 * September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
 * September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
 * September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
 * September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers.

October

 * October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa.
 * October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.

November

 * November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
 * November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
 * November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
 * November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
 * November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
 * November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
 * November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.

December

 * December 2 – The number of Chikungunya cases in Chiapas increases from 14 to 39 in one week. Between 17,000 and 18,000 cases have been reported by the Pan American Health Organization.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Eraclio Zepeda
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * José Mujica, President of Uruguay
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Bismarck Lepe
 * Hispanic Heritage Foundation
 * Denise Moreno Ducheny
 * Alma Flor Ada
 * Fernando Valenzuela
 * Jonathan Rothschild
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * Linguistics and literature – María de los Dolores Castro Varela and Eraclio Zepeda Ramos
 * Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz and Mauricio Hernández Ávila
 * History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy – Néstor García Canclini and Enrique Semo Calev
 * Technology and Design – José Mauricio López Romero
 * Popular Arts and Traditions – Carlomagno Pedro Martínez and Alberto Vargas Castellano
 * Fine arts – Arnaldo José Coen Ávila

Deaths

 * January 23 – Miguel Ángel Guzmán Garduño, journalist (Vértice) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero; killed.
 * January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, notable writer.
 * February 5 – Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, journalist (Notisur & Liberal del Sur) in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; killed.
 * February 16 – Omar Reyes Fabiánjournalist (Oaxaca Tiempo) in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca; killed.
 * February 28 – Benjamín Galván Gómez, journalist (Última Hora & Primera Hora) in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.
 * June 2 – Jorge Torres Palacios, journalist (El Dictamen de Guerrero) in Acapulco, Guerrero; killed.
 * July 14 – Antonio Riva Palacio, politician, Governor of Morelos (1988-1994), Ambassador to Ecuador (b. 1926)
 * July 30 – Nolberto Herrera Rodríguez, journalist (Canal 9) in Guadalupe, Zacatecas; killed.
 * August 12 – Murder of Octavio Rojas Hernández: Journalist (El Buen Tono) in Cosolapa Oaxaca; killed.
 * August 21 – Marlén Valdez García, journalist (La Última Palabra) in Juárez, Nuevo León; killed.
 * August 27 – Adrián Gaona Belmonte, journalist (La Comadrita 97.3 FM Radio) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.
 * September 3 – Víctor Pérez Pérez, journalist (Sucesos) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; killed.
 * October 12 – Octavio Atilano Román Tirado, journalist (ABC Radio) in Mazatlán, Sinaloa; killed.
 * September 23 (approx.) – Gabriel Gómez Michel, politician, Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from Zacatecas.
 * October 16 – María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, journalist (Valor por Tamaulipas) in	Reynosa, Tamaulipas; killed.
 * October 22 – Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, journalist (Nueva Prensa) in Los Mochis, Sinaloa; killed.
 * November 28 – Chespirito "Roberto Gómez Bolaños", actor and writer.
 * December 15 — Fausto Zapata, lawyer, politician, diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991