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This is a list of events that happened in 2009 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents[]

Federal government[]

Main article: Cabinet of Mexico

Supreme Court[]

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice
  • President of the Supreme Court:

Governors[]

Events[]

United States President Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderon following their meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009.
  • January– A Swine flu pandemic occur right after the U.S. first case of the Flu.
  • February 11 – Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City.[3]
  • March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.[4]
  • March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.[5]
  • April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.[6]
  • April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.[7]
  • April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.[8]
  • April 27 – : A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.[9]
  • May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.[10]
  • May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.[11]
  • June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.[12]
  • July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.[13]
  • July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.[14]
  • August 3 – Several earthquakes, including , hit northwestern Mexico.[15]
  • August 7 – 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings: Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since Mexico's continuing national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.[16]
  • August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat.[17]
  • August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.[18]
  • August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".[19]
  • September 9 – Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport.[20]
  • September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.[21]
  • December 16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos.[22]
  • December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.[23]
  • December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of journalist Alberto Velázquez, the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2009, is announced.[24]

Awards[]

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

Popular culture[]

Sports[]

Music[]

Film[]

Main article: Mexican films of 2009

Literature[]

TV[]

Telenovelas[]

Notable deaths[]

Ricardo Montalbán
  • January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.[25]
  • January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure.[26]
  • February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, president of Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered.[27][28]
  • February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.[29]
  • February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician PRD logo (Mexico).svg PRD, former president of Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered.[30]
  • February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered.[31][32]
  • March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.[33]
  • March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||Tancítaro, Michoacán||[34][35]
  • March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, former president of Tecpán de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered.[36]
  • March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).[37]
  • March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.[38]
  • March 23 �� Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.[39]
  • March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.[40]
  • April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, former municipal president of ; murdered.[41][42]
  • April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD logo (Mexico).svg PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.[43][44]
  • April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.[45]
  • April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.[46]
  • April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.[47]
  • May 5 – Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
  • May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.[48]
  • June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician PAN Party (Mexico).svg PAN, president of Ocampo Municipality; murdered.[49][50]
  • June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered.[51][52]
  • June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor (b. 1956)
  • July 14
    • Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician PAN Party (Mexico).svg PAN, president of Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.[53][54]
    • Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.[55]
  • July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.[56]
  • July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.[57]
  • August 20
  • August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.[60]
  • September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician; shot.[61]
  • October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered.[62]
  • October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician PRI Party (Mexico).svg PRI, former municipal president of Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered.[63]
  • October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.[64]
  • November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.[65]
  • November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.[66]
  • November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.[67]
  • November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.[68]
  • December 4: Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano), (b. 1926)[69]
  • December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.[70]
  • December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.[71]

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