2008 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.

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

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Felipe Calderón PAN

Main article: Cabinet of Mexico

• Interior Secretary (SEGOB)^[1]
  • Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
  • Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office)
  • Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa^[1]
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez^[1]
• Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota^[1]
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván^[1]
• Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza^[1]
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón^[1]
• Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)^[1]
  • Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
  • Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres^[1]
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada^[1]
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova^[1]
• Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna^[1]
• Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens^[1]
• Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1^[1]
• Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas^[1]
• Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas^[1]
• Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez^[1]
• Secretary of Economy (SE)^[1]
  • Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
  • Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
• Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza^[1]

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso, (National Action Party, PAN)
• Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, (PAN)
• Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
• Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
• Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Colima: Silverio Cavazos, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Durango: Ismael Hernández, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva, (National Action Party, PAN)
• Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• State of Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February); Leonel Godoy Rangel (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)
• Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).^[2]
• Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
• Nuevo León: José Natividad González Parás, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Puebla: Mario Marín Torres, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón (National Action Party, PAN)
• Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Sonora: Eduardo Bours, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (National Action Party, PAN)
• Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
• Zacatecas: Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)
• Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)

Events

• Macrolimosna
• June 1–2: Tropical Storm Arthur 2008
• July 20–21: Hurricane Dolly 2008
• August 3–8: XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008
• September: Riots in the La Mesa Prison
• September 15: 2008 Morelia grenade attacks
• October 6–7: Tropical Storm Marco 2008
• November 4: 2008 Mexico City plane crash
• November 26: Premios Oye! 2008

Elections

• 2008 Mexican elections

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
• Order of the Aztec Eagle
• National Prize for Arts and Sciences
• National Public Administration Prize
• Ohtli Award
  • Eliseo Medina
  • David Coss
  • Monica C. Lozano
  • Patricia Torres-Ray

Popular culture

Sports

• Primera División de México Clausura 2008
• 2008 Primera División de México Apertura
• 2008 North American SuperLiga
• 2008 InterLiga
• 2008 Carrera Panamericana
• 2008 NASCAR Corona Series season
• 2008 Rally México
• 2008 LATAM Challenge Series season
• 2008 Centrobasket
• 2008 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
• 2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2008)
• 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
• 2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guadalajara)
• 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Turkey
• 2008 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
• 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
• 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships
• 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
• Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Music

Film

Main article: Mexican films of 2008

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Fuego en la Sangre
• Las Tontas No Van al Cielo
• Alma de Hierro
• Querida Enemiga
• Cuidado con el ángel
• Juro Que Te Amo
• Un Gancho al Corazón
• En Nombre del Amor
• Mañana Es Para Siempre

Notable deaths

Gilberto Rincón Gallardo

Juan Camilo Mouriño

• January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
• January 30 – Marcial Maciel
• February 2 – Francisco de Santiago Silva, visual artist
• February 11 – Emilio Carballido
• February 25 – Alan Ledesma, 30, actor, stomach cancer.
• March 22 – Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
• April 8 – Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, actress, melanoma.
• April 10 – Ernesto Corripio Ahumada
• April 14 – Miguel Galvan, 50, actor, renal failure.
• May 8 – Leopoldo Juárez Urbina, politician (Convergence), former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.^[3][4][5]
• May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
• June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician PRI, municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.^[6]
• June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician PRI, municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered^{[nb 1][7]}
• June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
• July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician PRI, former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.^[8][9]
• July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (born 1955)
• July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
• July 30 – Alejandro Aura
• August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
• September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician PRD, municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.^[10][11]
• September 29 – Miguel Córcega, 78, actor and director, stroke.
• October 4 – Servando González
• October 8 – Salvador Vergara Cruz, politician PRI, municipal president of Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico; murdered.^[12]
• November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
• December 2 – Carlos Abascal
• December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)

Notes

1. Angulo Torres was kidnapped with his brother at a restaurant on 4 June 2008. His body has not been found and he is not reported as dead.