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2017 in Mexico

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This is a list of events that happened in 2017 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

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Federal government

See also: Cabinet of Mexico

Governors

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Events

January to March

  • 1 January – Consumers are concerned about abrupt increases in gasoline prices, known as el gasolinazo.[8]
  • 18 January – Colegio Americano del Noreste shooting; a 15-year-old student shoots a teacher and three classmates in Monterrey.[9]
  • 12 March – Former Interim governor Flavino Ríos Alvarado of Veracruz is arrested for covering up his predecessor's, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, crimes and helping him escape.[10]
  • 13 March – SEP announces educational reform measures.[11]
  • 14 March – A mass grave site of more than 250 people is discovered in Palmas de Abajo, Veracruz.[12]
  • 16 March – Prison escape in Culiacán.[13]
  • 31 March – A driver crashes after driving his car 200 kilometres (120 mi) per hour on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City.[8]

April to June

  • 10 April – Former Tamaulipas governor Tomás Yarrington, (PRI), is arrested in Italy, charged with plotting the murder of gubnatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú in 2010.[14]
  • 15 April – Former Veracruz governor Javier Duarte, (PRI, 2010–2016) is arrested in Panajachel, Sololá Department, Guatemala.[15]
  • 21 May – 42-year-old Russian Alextime kills a 19-year-old man in Cancun after a mob tries to lynch the Russian. He had earlier posted anti-Mexican racist comments on YouTube, but authorities refused to deport him.[16]
  • 4 June – Elections[17]

July to September

October to December

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Holidays, and observances

Main articles: Public holidays in Mexico and Fiestas Patrias (Mexico)

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico
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Deaths

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January

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  • January 1
    • Edson Tadeo Cárdenas Huerta (17), soccer player (Tigres UANL) (b. 1999).[35]
    • Martha Patricia Figueroa Juárez (53), social activist, businesswoman, politician in Cordoba, Veracruz; cáncer.[36]
    • Serafín Espinal (65), músician.[37]
  • January 2
    • Ernesto Franco Cobos, cultural promoter and writer in Tuxpan.[38]
    • Olegario Contreras Rubio, radio announcer in Sinaloa; heart problems.[39]
    • Analy Loera, businesswoman and cultural promoter; brain and lung cancer.[40]
  • January 3
  • January 5
    • Marco Francisco González Meza, public servant, accidente de tráfico.[43]
    • Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic (b. 1931).[44]
    • Cesáreo Víctor Santiago López, polítician from Oaxaca; murdered.[45]
    • Carmen Sánchez Galán (45), public servant; complicaciones post-operative complications.[46]
  • January 15
  • January 16 – Romeo Gómez Aguilar (97), músician and academic (b. 1919).[48]
  • January 17 – Martín Barrón Félix (52), physicist and meteorologist; liver failure and anemia (b. 1964).
  • January 18 – Raúl Muñoz Popoca (77), businessman in tourist industry.[49]
  • January 19
    • David Contreras, polítician (PRI) and public servant; diabetes.[50]
    • Fernando Soto (17), músician from Jalisco; drowning.[51]
  • January 20 – Abraham Ibarra Robles, public servant from Santa María Colotepec, Oaxaca; murdered.[52]
  • January 21 – Fernando Maiz Garza (57), businessman, builder, and philanthropist; airplane crash (b. 1959).[53]
  • January 22
    • Jesus Garcia, 72, boxer.[54]
    • Juan Huerta Ortega (67), businessman and rancher from Puebla; heart attack (b. 1949).[55]
    • Isidro Patrón Lara, musician.[56]
  • January 23 – Giovanni Arturo Amparan Zaragoza (30), businessman; shot.[57]
  • January 24
    • Ismael Gutiérrez (79), boxer (b. 1937).[58]
    • Antolín Vital Martínez, polítician, mayor of Tepexco, Puebla; murdered.[59]
  • January 25
  • January 26 – Javier García Narro, businessperson and leader of Coparmex (a business association) in Saltillo, Coahuila.[62]
  • January 27
    • Fredman Cruz Maldonado, singer; lung problems.[63]
    • Mario Palestina Moreno (45), baseball player; heart attack (b. 1971).[64]
  • January 28
    • Benjamín Cabral, filmmaker.[65]
    • Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez (22), soccer player; murdered (b. November 8, 1994).[66]
  • January 29
    • Omar Jair Canepa Polanco, public servant; murdered.[67]
    • Ángel García Cook (79), anthropologist and researcher (INAH) (b. 1937).[68]
    • Jorge Robles, músician and singer; cáncer.[69]
  • January 30 – Fidel Briano (72), lawyer and journalist.[70]
  • January 31
    • Pedro Koh Cimé, Yucatan polítician; murdered.[71]
    • José Luis Lagunes López, public servant; cáncer.[72]

February

March

  • March 3
    • Rolando Arellano Sánchez (22), músician and singer ("Grupo Contacto"), murdered.[80]
    • Miguel Guzmán Rosales (66), painter.[81]
  • March 5
    • Abril Campillo (58), actress; breast cancer (b. 1958).[82]
    • Tony Flores (67), comedian; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.[83]
    • Alejandro Rosales (49), television star (El Sibidibidi); heart attack.[84]
    • José Ignacio Rosillo Rodríguez (85), journalist.[85]
  • March 6 – Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, 81, economist and politician (PRI) (b. 1935)[86]
  • March 9
    • Enrique Ortiz Rivas, mathematician, politician, and labor leader; surgical complications.[87]
    • Raquel Parot (92), actress[88]
    • Juan Gabriel Sánchez Gómez (43), leader of taxi drivers in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.[89]
    • Zorro (62), singer and politician, stroke.[90]
  • March 12
    • Mario Agredano Brambila (88), radio and television announcer, reporter, and commentator in Nuevo Leon.[91]
    • Joaquín Arizpe de la Maza, businessman and philanthropist.[92]
    • Refugio Arturo García Moreno (63), education leader ("Conalep"); heart attack.[93]
    • Raúl Maldonado Mendoza, poet and orator from Oaxaca; heart attack.[94]
  • March 13 – Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; respiratory problems (b. 1927).[95]
  • March 14 – José Iván Ponce, labor leader in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.[96]
  • March 15 – Armando Garza Sada (84), engineer, businessman (Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery), and banker (Banco de Londres y México and Banpais).[97]
  • March 18
  • March 19 – José Reza Fernández (61), polítician in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; suicide.[100]
  • March 20
  • March 21
    • Víctor Bartoli (65), writer (Mujer Alabastrina) from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.[105]
    • Marco Villafán (64), translator and adaptor of theatrical productions.[106]
  • March 23 – Miroslava Breach, 54, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua); murdered (b. August 7, 1962).[107]
  • March 29
    • Felipe Altamirano Carrillo, Indigenous priest from Nayarit; murdered.[108]
    • Dennis Palomo (21), comedian; suicide.[109]
    • Aurelio Prado Flores (68), Roman Catholic social activist and columnist (La Voz) (B. 1949).[110]
    • Leodegario Varela González, polítician from Zacatecas; cáncer.[111]
  • March 30 – Six murders in Oaxaca:[112]
  • March 31 – Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees) and coach, World Series champion (1980); natural causes (b. 1936).[113]

April

May

  • May 1 – Santos Vega Camargo (73), actor and theater director ("El Confesionario") from Torreón (b. November 1, 1943.[131]
  • May 3 – José Herrera Aispuro (51), director of the College of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa; murdered.[132]
  • May 4 – Guadalupe González Saíno (30), polítician from Jopala, Puebla; murdered.[133]
  • May 7 – Gran Apache, 58, professional wrestler (AAA), intestinal cancer.[134]
  • May 11
    • José Manuel Amarillas Monjardín, polítician from Novolato, Sinaloa; murdered.[135]
    • Andrea Romero Rojas, food propomoter (cacao) from Zacatelco, Tlaxcala (b. 1953).[136]
  • May 12
    • Miguel Ángel Sánchez Morán, public servant and criminal lawyer from Mazatlán; murdered.[137]
  • May 13
  • Enrique Barrera Chávez (86), form tresurer of Coahuila.[139]
  • May 15
  • May 16 – Mario Moreno Ivanova (57), comedian, son of Cantinflas (b. 1960).[144]
  • May 17 – Raúl Córdoba, 93, soccer player (Club Atlas, national team) (b. March 13, 1924).[145]
  • May 18
  • May 19 – David Sánchez, 25, flyweight boxer, traffic collision.[150]
  • May 20 – Miguel Vázquez Torres, Indigenous Huichol leader; murdered.[151]
  • May 22 – Santiago Salas de León, académic, writer, and rector of open university.[152]
  • May 24 – Miguel Ángel Camacho Zamudio, physician and public servant (director of ISSSTE in Mazatlan); murdered.[153]
  • May 25 – Juan Carlos Zamarripa Fernández, polítician, mayor of Pánuco, Veracruz; murdered.[154]
  • May 27 – Jaasiel Hernán Contreras Vega, photographer; murdered.[155]
  • May 31 – Fernando Sarabia Beltrán (108), académic and activist.[156]

June

  • June 2 – Armando Mendoza Duarte (48), polítician; murdered (b. 1969).
  • June 3
  • June 5
    • Eduardo Catarino Dircio, politician (Morena) from Tixtla de Guerrero municipality, Guerrero; killed by state police.[158]
    • Eleazar Vargas Lara, community leader and politician from Iguala, Guerrero; murdered.[159]
    • Ana Winocur (44), journalist; pancreatitis (b. October 1972).[160]
  • June 6 – Jorge Ortiz Murray, leader of fishermen in Mazatlan; heart attack.[161]
  • June 8
  • June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.[164]
  • June 10 – Luis Fuentes Molinar, 89, journalist and politician (PRI), former mayor of Chihuahua (1977-1980) and federal Deputy (1973-1976).[165]
  • June 11 – Radamés Díaz Meza, Culiacán, Sinaloa, businessman; murdered.[166]
  • June 15 – Raúl Miranda Valencia, 48, lawyer and public servant from Michoacan; murdered.[167]
  • June 17 – Luis Rey Sifuentes, politician (Morena) from Chihuahua; shot.
  • June 21 – Ulises Hueto Elizalde ("El Chispa") (33), boxer from Mexico City; murdered.[168]
  • June 23 – Eva Castañeda Cortés (87), social activist (Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata) from Morelia, Michoacan.[169]
  • June 24
    • Camilo Juan Castagne Velazco, police commissioner of La Antigua, Veracruz; murdered alongside another police officer.[170]
    • Jorge Humberto Higareda Magaña (75), businessman and leader of truckers in Puebla (b. 1942).
  • June 26
    • Salvador Adame, journalist from Gabriel Zamora, Michoacan; murdered (found dead this date).[171]
    • Alejandro Zepeda Ortiz (27), journalist and reporter from Chiapas; suicide.
  • June 27
  • June 29
    • Rodolfo Díaz ("Chivo") (78), boxer and trainer; diabetes.
    • Vinicio Ferrer Merino, polítician, mayor of San Mateo Sindihui, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.[174]
    • Demetrio Jaime Martínez Benítez, politician, former mayor of San Francisco Cahuacúa, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.[175]
    • Meztli Sarabia Reyna, activist (Unión Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes (UPVA) “28 de Octubre”) from Puebla; murdered.[176]
  • June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.[164]

July

  • July 1
    • Gregorio Delgadillo Santos (38), polítician (Morena) from Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl; murdered.[177]
    • Simón Flores Ramón, polítician and government worker from Atlacomulco, State of Mexico; electrical discharge.[178]
  • July 2
  • July 3 – José Luis Cuevas, 83, artist.[181]
  • July 4 – Walter González Arriaga, polítician; murdered.[182]
  • July 5 – Luis López Villa (71), Catholic priest from Los Reyes La Paz, State of Mexico; throat slit.[183]
  • July 6
    • David Alonso López, 39, boxer, shot.[184]
    • Mariano Herrán Salvatti (68), lawyer and civil servant; liver condition.[185]
    • Héctor Villasana Rosales (78), lawyer and académic; anemia.[186]
  • July 7
    • Sergio Fuentes Gutiérrez, lawyer and researcher.[187]
    • Jorge Juan Rodriguez Reyes, labor leader; automobile accident.[188]
  • July 8 – Guadalupe Baltazar Rojas, chronicler and craftswoman from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala.[189]
  • July 9 – Diego Zavala Pérez (85), lawyer, académic, and polítician, father of Margarita Zavala; heart attack.[190]
  • July 10 – Pedro Joaquín Alberto Cárdenas Segura, músician, composer, and orquestra director.[191]
  • July 13 – Héctor Lechuga, 88, comedian, actor and radio personality (México 2000), heart attack.[192]
  • July 14
  • July 17 – Martha Nava (75), Mexico's best female basketball player.[196]
  • July 18
    • Irma Camacho García (67), polítician (substitute mayor of Temixco, Morelos, 2016–2017); cardiorespiratory arrest.[197]
    • Erika Mireles, voice actress ("The Simpsons" and "Doña Clotilde").[198]
  • July 19 – Hortensia de la Concepción Orozco Tejada, polítician; stroke.[199]
  • July 20 – Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna (48), criminal; shot by police.[200]
  • July 21 – Ángel Padilla, músician (harp player).[201]

July 22

    • Juan Bernardo Ruvalcaba, boxer and trainer; killed during robbery.[202]
    • José Arturo Tolosa Campos (59), Sinaloa photojournalist (El Debate); accidente de tránsito.[203]
  • July 23 – Erwin Trejo (47), singer (Juan Gabriel's twin); murdered.[204]
  • July 24
  • July 25
    • Gerardo Gallardo (49), actor ("Chef Ornica") (b. 1967).[207]
    • David Vera Jiménez (54), public servant in Mexico City; heart attack.[208]
  • July 26
    • Saúl Escudero Pozos (48), polítician and public servant; cáncer.[209]
    • Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.[210]
  • July 28 – Luis Arturo Porras Aceves (78), journalist and reporter (El Heraldo de Chihuahua) (b. 1939).[211]
  • July 31
    • Lorenzo Arroyo, immigration activist; amyloidosis.[212]
    • Baltazar Maldonado Rosales (55), polítician (former mayor of Apizaco Municipality, Tlaxcala; renal insufficiency and cáncer (b. 1961).[213]
    • Luciano Rivera, journalist and reporter ("Dictamen" and TV channel CNR (176)) in Mexicali; murdered.[214]
    • José Trinidad Ventura González (42), Presbyterian Church elder in Orizaba.[215]

August

September

  • September 2
    • Gabriela del Valle, actress (Maten a la hiena).[251]
    • Alejo García García, académic (Instituto Universitario Londres), public servant, and chef.[252]
    • Oscar Javier González Torres ("El Espectaculo"), 62, músician, actor y comedian; cáncer of the páncreas.[253]
    • Marisela Ortega Lozano, journalist ("El Paso Times," "El Diario de El Paso," and Reforma); cáncer.[254]
  • September 3 – Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, WBA/WBC featherweight champion (1963–1964), cancer (b. December 2, 1941).[255]
  • September 4 – José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuxtla (1965–1988) and San Juan de los Lagos (1988–1999), respiratory complications (b. March 30, 1921).[256]
  • September 5 – José Durán González, 67, polítician, former mayor of Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato; murdered.[257]
  • September 6 – Raúl Castañeda (34), boxer; murdered (b. 1982).
  • September 11
  • September 12 – Álvaro Matute Aguirre (74), historian (UNAM) (b. April 19, 1943).
  • September 27 – Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress (El Chema) and singer (La Academia), liver hemorrhage during childbirth.[260]
  • September 28 – Karla Luna (38), actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer; cancer (b. September 25, 1979).[261]

October

  • October 2 – Evangelina Elizondo, 88, actress (Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), natural causes (b. 1929).[262]
  • October 4 – Luis de la Hidalga y Enríquez (93), lawyer, public servant, writer ("El Violador de la Rosa", "La Venganza de Lady Wilshire"), and académic (b. December 12, 1923).
  • October 5 – Édgar Esqueda, journalist (Vox Populi); murdered.[263]
  • October 6 – Stalin Sánchez, mayor of Paracho de Verduzco, Michoacan; murdered.[264]
  • October 10 – Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla; murdered along with his wife and a security guard.[265]
  • October 15 – Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, engineer, ambassador, politician (PRI), Senator (1982–1988), governor of San Luis Potosi (1991-1992); (b. March 10, 1928).
  • October 16 – Cecilia Méndez, 60, radio announcer in Zapopan, Puebla; murdered.[266]
  • October 19
    • Gaspar Jesús Azcorra Alejos (75), Yucatan priest, writer, and poet (b. 1942).
    • Julio Chávez Hernández, polítician (PT) and social activist in Veracruz.[267]
  • October 20 – Crispín Gutiérrez Moreno, politician (PRI), rancher, and mayor of Ixtlahuacán, Colima; murdered.[268]
  • October 21 – Rosaura Barahona, 75, journalist (El Norte) and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.[269]

November

December

  • December 5 – Iliana Godoy Patiño (65), narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (b. January 22, 1952).[283]
  • December 8 – Juan Celada Salmón, 101, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (b. February 14, 1916).[284]
  • December 11 – Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1988–1991) (b. April 10, 1947).[285]
  • December 14 – Javier Villalobos Jaramillo (76), architect, restaurer and académic (b. April 30, 1941).[286]
  • December 15 – Rubén Pato Soria, 75, professional wrestler.[287]
  • December 18
    • Emilio Alvarado Badillo (56), photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (b. 1951).[288]
    • Ricardo Miledi (90), neuro-scientist (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Medicina de México) (b. September 15, 1927).[289]
    • Ricardo Suriano (67), journalist (Charamupa) from Tonalá, Chiapas.
  • December 19
    • Gumaro Pérez Aguilando (34), journalist and reporter (La Voz del Sur) in Acayucan, Veracruz; murdered.[290]
    • Fernando Villares Moreno ("Zorro"), 62, singer ("Fugitivo"); stroke.[291]
  • December 20 – Jesús Castillo Rangel (121), Revolutionary and farmer, Mexico's oldest man; respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia.(b. October 24, 1896).[292]
  • December 24
  • December 25
    • Rudy Casanova (50), Cuban-born Mexican actor (Amores con trampa and Hasta el fin del mundo); breathing problems (b. November 3, 1967).[298]
    • Alfredo Guzman Guzman, former mayor of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato (1977-1979).[299]
    • José Luis Sánchez Camacho (85), músician.
  • December 28
    • David Antón (93), scenographer and costume designer (b. 1924).
    • Saúl Galindo Plazola, polítician (PRD), former mayor of Tomatlán (2013-2015), Jalisco; murdered.[300]
    • Arturo Gómez Pérez, polítician mayor of Petatlán, Guerrero; murdered.[301]
    • Luis Abraham González Contreras (31), photographer y reporter; murdered.
    • Gerardo Olavarrieta León, hotel owner ("Suites Kokai", "Plaza Kokai", and "Condominios Kokai") in Cancun, Quintana Roo.[302]
    • Mario Stern (81), composer and académic (b. 1936).[303]
  • December 31
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Notes

  1. "El Bronco" took a leave of absence in 2018 to run for President.
  2. The DF ceased to exist on February 5, at which time Mexico City became autonomous (equal to a state) with its own constitution.[7]

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