2002 in Mexico

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Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Vicente Fox PAN

See also: Cabinet of Mexico

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola
• Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Carlos María Abascal Carranza
• Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Leticia Navarro
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
• Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Felipe González González PAN
• Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
• Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño, PRD
• Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
• Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
• Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García PRI
• Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI
• Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña PRI
• Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier PRI
• Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
• Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros PRI
• Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI
• Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
• State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel PRI
• Michoacán
  • Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí PRI (date not available)
  • Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD (date not available)
• Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN.[1]
• Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
• Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
• Oaxaca: José Murat Casab PRI
• Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI
• Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN
• Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI
• San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto
• Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI
• Sonora: Armando López Nogales PRI
• Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
• Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington PRI
• Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
• Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI
• Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
• Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal PRD
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD

Events

• January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
• February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
• March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
• September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
• October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta
• October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
• November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio[2]
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
  • Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
  • Richard Joel Noriega

Popular culture

• March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
• May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
• June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
• July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.

Sports

• Primera División de México Verano 2002
• Primera División de México Apertura 2002

Music

Film

Main article: Mexican films of 2002

Documentaries

• Gabriel Orozco
• Niños de la calle
• Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
• Acosada (De piel de víbora)

Fiction

• Amar te duele
• Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
• Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras)
• El crimen del padre Amaro
• eXXXorcismos
• Francisca (... De qué lado estás?)
• El gavilán de la sierra
• La habitación azul
• Seres humanos
• El tigre de Santa Julia
• Una de dos
• La virgen de la lujuria

Literature

TV

Births

• February 5 – Paulina Villarreal, drummer

Deaths

• January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
• February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
• April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914)[3]
• October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)[4]
• October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer
• November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician
• November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
• December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).[5][6]

References

1. Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. Zárate Vite, Arturo (7 Oct 2002). "Dará Senado presea a Héctor Fix Zamudio". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. Mejia, Carolina. "Maria Feliz: 10 datos intimos de la diva del cine mexicano" [Maria Feliz: 10 intimate facts about the diva of Mexican Cinema] (in Spanish). El Universal de10.mx.
4. Pilar Mandujano Jacobo (September 25, 2018), "Emilio García Riera", Enciclopedia de la Literatura en Mexico (in Spanish), retrieved August 23, 2019
5. "Biografia de Iván Illich". Biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
6. "Ivan Illich". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved June 1, 2019.