2002 in Mexico

Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

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]