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.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
January–March
August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack : Casino Royale in fire, after the attack
January
February
March
March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico 's Guerrero state.[ 11]
April–June
April
May
May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey .
June
July–September
July
August
September
October–December
October
November
December
Awards
Notable deaths
January to June
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.
January 5 – Saúl Vara Rivera , politician PRI , Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila ; shot. (body found on this date)[ 20] [ 21]
January 11
January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata , politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec ; shot.[ 23] [ 24]
February 4 – Juan Carlos Guardado Méndez, politician PT , former municipal president of Fresnillo , Zacatecas; murdered.[ nb 1] [ 25]
February 9 – Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno, journalist (Grupo Multimedios Laguna), Torreón, Coahuila ; killed.[ 26]
February 12 – Saturnino Valdez Llanos, politician ||PRI , municipal president of Tampico Alto , Veracruz; murdered.[ nb 2] [ 27] [ 28]
February 22 – José Luis Prieto Torres, politician, former president of Allende Municipality, Chihuahua ; murdered.[ 29]
February 28 – Enrique Chávez Gómez, politician PRD , former candidate for municipal president of Saucillo , Chihuahua; murdered.[ 30]
March 10 – Mario Chuc Aguilar, politician, former municipal president of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo ; murdered.[ 31] [ 32]
March 25 – José Luis Cerda Meléndez & Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo , journalists (La Prensa ), Guadalupe, Nuevo León ; killed.[ 33]
April 7 – Enterbio Reyes Bello, politician, former president of Copanatoyac (municipality) , Guerrero; murdered.[ 34]
May 14 – Silvia Moreno Leal, politician, former president of Balleza Municipality , Chihuahua; murdered.[ 35] [ 36]
May 18 – Fernando Duarte Flores, politician, former municipal president of Hidalgo, Coahuila; murdered.[ 37]
May 31 – Noel López Olguín, journalist (La Verdad de Jáltipan ), Chinameca, Veracruz ; killed.[ 38]
June 7 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN , former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango , Puebla; murdered.[ 39]
June 14 – Pablo Ruelas Barraza, journalist (Diario del Yaqui & El Regional de Sonora ), Huatabampo, Sonora ; killed.[ 40] [ 41]
June 20 – Miguel Ángel López Velasco , journalist (Notiver ), Veracruz ; killed.[ 42]
June 24 – Gonzalo Amador Ortega, politician PAN , former candidate for municipal president of Huauchinango , Puebla; murdered.[ 43]
July to December
July 3 – Ángel Castillo Corona, journalist (Puntual and Diario de México ), Ocuilan State of Mexico; killed.[ 44]
July 21 – Ernesto Cornejo Valenzuela, politician PAN , former candidate for deputy; state delegate for the PAN in Benito Juárez Municipality, Sonora ; murdered.[ 45]
July 26 – Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz , journalist (Notiver ), Veracruz, Veracruz ; killed.[ 46]
July 28 – Fortino Cortés Sandoval, politician, municipal president of Florencia de Benito Juárez , Zacatecas; murdered.[ 47] [ 48]
August 20 – José Eduviges Nava Altamirano, politician PT , municipal president of Zacualpan, State of Mexico ; murdered.[ 49]
August 24 – Luz María García Villagrán, politician, president of Gran Morelos Municipality , Chihuahua; murdered.||[ 50]
September 1
Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist (Contralínea ), Iztapalapa, Mexico City ; killed.[ 51]
Rocío González Trápaga, journalist (Televisa Mexico City), Iztapalapa, Mexico City; killed.[ 51]
September 15 – Gustavo Pacheco Villaseñor, politician PRI , former municipal president of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec , Oaxaca; murdered.[ 52]
September 17 – Moisés Villanueva de la Luz , politician PRI ,Deputy from Tlapa de Comonfort (municipality) , Guerrero; murdered.[ 53]
September 24 – María Elizabeth Macías Castro , journalist (Primera Hora ), Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; killed.[ 54]
August 25 – Humberto Millán Salazar , journalist (A Discusión and Radio Fórmula Culiacán ), Culiacán, Sinaloa ; killed.[ 55]
October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez , lawyer and politician PRI ; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987 (b. 1920 )
November 2 – Ricardo Guzmán Romero, politician PAN , municipal president of La Piedad , Michoacán; murdered.[ 56] [ 57]
November 19 – Roberto Miguel Galván, politician, former municipal president of Tepetzintla, Veracruz ; murdered.[ nb 3] [ 58]
December 3 – Hugo César Muruato Flores, journalist (La Caliente 90.9 ), Chihuahua, Chihuahua; killed.[ 59]
December 12 – Fortunato Ruiz Blázquez, politician, former municipal president of Ixhuacán , Veracruz; murdered.[ 60]
December 21 – José Martínez Mendoza, politician, former municipal president of Cosalá , Sinaloa; murdered.[ 61]
December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo , 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011); heart attack.[ 62]
December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. , 71, actor (Zorro series ); cancer, died in New York City, United States.[ 63]
December 31 – Porfirio Flores Ayala, politician PRI ||former president of Cuernavaca Municipality , Morelos; murdered.[ 64]
See also
Notes
^ Guardado Méndez was abducted on 4 February 2011 and is currently disappeared. He is not reported as dead.
^ Valdez Llanos was intercepted by gunmen and has not been found. He is not reported as dead.
^ Cartel members broke into Galván's house and kidnapped him. He remains disappeared.
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