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2014


 * January
 * Cervantes Prize winning poet and essayist José Emilio Pacheco (pictured) dies
 * April
 * A bus crashes near Acayucan, killing at least 36 people
 * A moment magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes in Guerrero state (epicenter pictured)
 * July
 * The official estimate of Mexico's population is 119,713,203, per the National Population Council (Conapo), up from a 2010 UN estimate of 117,886,000 (population growth pictured)
 * September
 * Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
 * The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor Cantinflas (pictured), is released nationally
 * Hurricane Odile makes landfall on the Baja California peninsula
 * October
 * Allegations are made that employees of Grupo Financiero Banamex, a division of Citigroup, had taken millions of dollars in kickbacks from vendors.
 * Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, keyboard player for Jack White, is found dead in his hotel room in Puebla, Mexico
 * November
 * Comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known as "Chespirito", dies at age 85

2014
 * Mexican Drug War :
 * October
 * Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, a suspected drug lord and former leader of the Juárez Cartel, is arrested in Torreón, Coahuila
 * A mass grave is found outside Iguala in Guerrero, southern Mexico
 * Students and teachers set fires inside a state capital building in Chilpancingo, in protests over the disappearance of 43 students believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel. The disappearance is being investigated for possible connections to the Iguala massacre
 * The Federal Preventive Police take over 13 municipalities in Southern Mexico, where local police are suspected of links to organized crime
 * November
 * In Mexico City, thousands protest the disappearance of 43 students after the discovery of mass graves.
 * Methamphetamine seizures at the California - Mexico border are up by 300% from 2009 to 2014, with 14,732 pounds seized in 2014