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.
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April–June
April
May
May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey .
June
July–September
July
August
September
October–December
October
November
December
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
Abraham Ortíz Rosales , politician PVEM , Mayor of Temoac , Morelos; shot.[22]
Susana Chávez , poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
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]
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.