2015 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2015 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, until August 25
 * Claudia Ruiz Massieu, starting August 27
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
 * Education Secretary (SEP)
 * Emilio Chuayffet, until August 27
 * Aurelio Nuño Mayer, starting August 27
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
 * Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS):
 * Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR)
 * Rosario Robles, until August 27
 * José Antonio Meade, starting August 27
 * Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
 * Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until August 27
 * Enrique de la Madrid Cordero, starting August 27
 * Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
 * Juan José Guerra Abud, until August 27
 * Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, starting August 27
 * 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, until September 10
 * Carlos Mendoza Davis, starting September 10
 * Campeche
 * Fernando Ortega Bernés, until September 15
 * Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, starting September 16
 * Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello
 * Chihuahua: César Horacio Duarte Jáquez
 * Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez,
 * Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno,
 * Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera
 * Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez,
 * Guerrero
 * Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor, until October 27
 * Héctor Astudillo Flores, since October 27
 * Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz
 * Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval
 * State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas
 * Michoacán
 * Salvador Jara Guerrero, Substitute governor until September 30
 * Silvano Aureoles Conejo, starting October 1
 * Morelos: Graco Ramírez.
 * Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda
 * Nuevo León
 * Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, until October 4
 * Jaime Rodríguez Calderón ("El Bronco"), Independent, starting October 4
 * Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo
 * Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas,
 * Querétaro: José Calzada,
 * Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo,
 * San Luis Potosí
 * Fernando Toranzo Fernández, until September 25
 * Juan Manuel Carreras, since September 26
 * Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez,
 * Sonora
 * Guillermo Padrés Elías, until September 12
 * Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, starting September 13
 * Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez
 * 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, Independent

January

 * January 7: CENAPRED reported that ash from recent explosions coats the snow on the Popocateptl volcano's upper slopes.
 * January 29: An explosion occurred in a maternal hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, leaving 7 dead and 60 injured.

February

 * February 13: A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30.
 * February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.

March
During the international tour, in search of foreign investment, President Enrique Peña Nieto, makes various economic, financial and cultural agreements with the Queen Elizabeth II.
 * March 3:

April

 * April 4: Lunar Eclipse
 * April 8: Mexico issues a 100-year bond for 1.5 billion euros or its equivalent to approximately 620 million dollars. No

May

 * May 22: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias dies general director of ISSSTE
 * May 27: The SCT opens audits on contracts awarded to OHL
 * May 27: Nestora Salgado will be transferred to another prison, that of Tepepan.
 * May 28: Murder of coordinator of Panista candidate in the delegation Azcapotzalco.
 * May 28: The INE agrees to pay $10,000 to Rigoberta Menchú.
 * May 31: Santos champion by defeating the team of Querétaro (5-3).

June

 * June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.

November

 * November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Alberto Baillères
 * Order of the Aztec Eagle
 * King Felipe VI of Spain
 * Charles, Prince of Wales
 * Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
 * National Prize for Arts and Sciences
 * National Public Administration Prize
 * Ohtli Award
 * Hector Ruiz
 * John D. Trasviña
 * Valentina Alazraki
 * Suzy Castor
 * Maria Elena Durazo
 * Raúl Grijalva
 * Ana Recio Harvey
 * José Huizar
 * Ray Keck
 * Eva Longoria
 * Spencer MacCallum
 * Antonio Olmos

Deaths

 * January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.
 * January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
 * January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist (Excélsior and Proceso).
 * January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor (Dos Corazones y un Cielo) and singer, complications from a stroke.
 * January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982), Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991).
 * February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
 * February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman (b. 1932)
 * February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
 * February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara).
 * February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision.
 * March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack.
 * March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
 * March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler (AAA), stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
 * March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer.
 * April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP (1997–2000), cancer.
 * April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona (1975–1977), Ambassador to El Salvador (1964–1968), Bolivia (1968–1969) and Argentina (1977–1980).
 * April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, c. 20, suspected assassin, shot.
 * April 23
 * Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist (Memín Pinguín, MAD).
 * Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa (1988–1991), MP for Veracruz (1994–1997).
 * April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
 * May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
 * May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
 * June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician (PAN).
 * June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians), pneumonia.
 * June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion (1988–1989), stabbed.
 * June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer.
 * July 2: Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Recognized communicator who directed for more than 20 years the main news on national network; stroke. (b. 1928)
 * July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer. (b. 1951)
 * July 21: Gelsen Gas, 82, artist and filmmaker.
 * July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
 * August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist (1980).
 * August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
 * August 23
 * Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy (1997–2000).
 * Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation (1970–1976).
 * September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack.
 * September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician.
 * September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director.
 * September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).
 * October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist.
 * October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
 * October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager (Tigres de Quintana Roo).
 * October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate (2006–2012), plane crash.
 * November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
 * November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
 * November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
 * December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975)
 * December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (1996–2009).
 * December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
 * December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973).