2003 in Mexico

Federal government

President: Vicente Fox PAN

Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
- Jorge Castañeda Gutman, until January 10
- Luis Ernesto Derbez, starting January 15
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
Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR)
- Leticia Navarro, until July 29
- Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, starting July 29
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
- Víctor Lichtinger, until June
- Alberto Cárdenas, starting June^[1]
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

Aguascalientes: Felipe González González PAN
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño PRD
Campeche
- José Antonio González Curi, until September 15
- Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PRI, starting September 16
Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRI
Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García PRI
Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI
Colima
- Fernando Moreno Peña PRI, until October 31
- Carlos Flores Dueñas PRI, interim governor November 1-December 31
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: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN.^[2]
Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
Oaxaca: José Murat Casab PRI
Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI
Querétaro
- Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN, until September 30
- Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN, starting October 1
Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI
San Luis Potosí
- Fernando Silva Nieto, until September 25
- Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN, Starting September 26
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI
Sonora
- Armando López Nogales PRI, until September 13
- Eduardo Bours PRI, starting September 13
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

Fahrenheit has its first issue published.
The Chiapas Bridge is finished with being constructed.
The México Posible party is founded and dissolved.
January 21: 2003 Colima earthquake.
February 18: The State of Mexico votes in a referendum on the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.^[3]^[4]^[5]
March 13: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas is created.
June 2: The Escuela Preparatoria Tlalpan II "Otilio Montaño" is inaugurated.
July 5: The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples goes into effect.
July 6: 2003 Mexican legislative election
September: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun.
September 5: Nuestra Belleza México 2003.
September 28: Optibús starts operations.
November 15: Miss Latin America 2004 held in Cancun.
November 27: the Monterrey Arena is opened.
December 9 – 11: The United Nations Convention Against Corruption is opened for signing in Mérida, Yucatán.
December 22: Counter-terrorism base Ixtoc-Alfa is founded by the Mexican Navy.

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