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2018 in Mexico

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This is a list of events that happened in 2018 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

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Cabinet

Main article: Cabinet of Mexico

Governors

Events

January through March

  • January 23 — Marco Antonio Sanchez Flores, a student at Prepa 8 in Mexico City, is detained by the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica and the Policia Auxiliar. Several hours later, he was released in Melchor Ocampo, State of Mexico. Months later, the detention is unexplained.[5]
  • February 16 — A helicopter of the SEDENA crashes, leaving 14 dead. The helicopter, which was carrying the Secretary of the Interior, Alfonso Navarrete Prida and the Governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, crashed in Santiago Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, as it was inspecting the damage caused by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 that had taken place at 5:39 p.m.[5]
  • February 18 – Five minors are killed and three are injured when their car crashes on Eje 10 Sur in Mexico City. They had visited a fair in Santa Catarina Yecahuízotl, Tláhuac.[6]
  • March 19: Three film students from the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales (CAAV), Javier Salomón Aceves Gastélum, Daniel Díaz y Marcos Ávalos, disappeared in Tonalá, Jalisco. Later it was discovered that the students were beaten and killed, and their bodies were dissolved in acid.[5]
  • March 20 – A man walks into a store in "Reforma 222" shopping mall in Mexico City, shoots his ex-wife, and causes panic among the shoppers.[6]
  • March 30 – Campaigning for the 2018 Mexican general election begins.[7]

April through June

  • April 5 — U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to militarize its southern border.[5]
  • April 10 – Despite not having sufficient signatures, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón "El Bronco" is allowed to run for President as an independent candidate.[7]
  • April 11 – After two weeks, a capuchin monkey is captured and taken to Chapultepec Zoo.[6]
  • April 22 – First Presidential debate, in Mexico City is watched by 11.4 million people.[7]
  • May 8 – A crack in the high-speed lane of Viaducto Miguel Alemán in Iztacalco, Mexico City, frightens motorists. It requires 1,100 m3 of concrete to be repaired.[6]
  • May 16 – Margarita Zavala, the only female candidate for President, drops out.[7]
  • May 18 — An airplane crash in Cuba results in the deaths of 112 people, including the seven members of the crew, all Mexicans.[5]
  • May 20 – Second Presidential debate, in Tijuana, Baja California[7]
  • June
    • Floods cause multiple problems throughout the country, particularly in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Guanajuato.[5]
    • Two dismembered bodies, presumably belonging to drug traffickers, are found on Avenida Insurgentes Norte y Flores Magón in Nonoalco Tlatelolco, Mexico City.[6]

July through September

  • July 1 — Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins the presidency.[5]
  • July 12
  • August 7 – Elba Esther Gordillo Morales is cleared of charges of money laundering and organized crime membership, after spending five years in prison.[8]
  • August 8 – Roberto Moyado Esparza, a.k.a. ‘El Betito’, presumed leader of La Unión de Tepito drug gang, is arrested.[6]
  • August 17 — The government issues a new MXN $500 bill, featuring Benito Juarez.[5]
  • September 4 — A group of pseudo-students known as porros attack a peaceful march by students from the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (CCH) Azcapotzalco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), who were demanding greater security measures on campus. Several students are injured.[5][6]
  • September 15 – Peña Nieto leads the Independence Day Celebration for the last time.[7]

October through December

Holidays, festivities, and special events

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

Awards

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

Deaths

See also: List of politicians killed in the Mexican Drug War and List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico

January

  • January 1
    • Santiago Elias Castro Escobedo, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila; heart attack.[19]
    • Carlos Tirado Montero, 70, businessperson and politician (b. 1947).[20]
  • January 5
    • Glafiro Alanís Flores, 73, biologist and educator (author of El valor de nuestras plantas, and Flora nativa ornamental para Monterrey); illness (b. 1944).[21]
    • Isauro Medina Hinojos, 95, businessperson and former mayor of Parral, Chihuahua (b. 1922).[22]
  • January 6
    • Rubén Amaro Rodarte, 81, businessperson (b. 1936).
    • Jose Gerardo Martinea, 35, journalist (El Universal; murdered during robbery.[23]
    • Enrique Caballero Vela, 65, actor; lumbar cáncer (b. 1952).[24]
    • Salvador Reyes Montellano, journalist.
  • January 7: Roberto López y Garza ("Bob Logar"), 82, journalist and publicicist; heart attack (b. 1936).[25]
  • January 8
    • Salvador Borrego, 102, pro-Nazi journalist and writer (b. 1915).[26]
    • Francisco McManus Soto, educator and environmentalist ("Radio Ecologica").[27]
  • Joel Alanís (47), rock músician; sclerosis.[28]
  • January 10: Eugenio Ramírez (60), polítician from Guerrero; heart attack.
  • January 12: Hugo Betancourt Morales (59), dancer and art director (b. 1958).[29]
  • January 13: Carlos Domínguez, independent journalist ("Diario de Nuevo Laredo"); murdered.[30]
  • January 16: Rogelio Benavides Chapa, 77, former mayor of Guadalupe, Nuevo León; complications from surgery.[31]
  • January 17: Rafael Villegas Attolini, 72, businessperson and former mayor of Gómez Palacio Municipality.[32]
  • January 19: Andrés Marcelo Sada Zambrano (87), engineer and businessperson ("Grupo Cydsa").[33]
  • January 21: Rafael Anaya González, rector of Universidad Don Vasco.[34]
  • January 22: Rogelio Padilla, 62, sociologist, activist for children's rights, founder of MAMA, A.C. (b. 1955)[35]
  • January 24: Ramón "Diablo" Montoya Lerma (78), baseball center-fielder (Diablos Rojos) and member of Hall of Fame (b. 1940).[36]
  • January 25: Sahori (María Jovita Ramírez Zamora), Mexican wrestler; cáncer.[37]
  • January 26
  • January 27
  • January 28: Salvador Aguilar García, mayor of Cohetzala, Puebla; auto accident.[42]

February

  • February 1
    • Gonzalo Aguilar Zinser, lawyer and social activist; heart attack.[43]
    • Rumaldo Velázquez Quiñónez (56), politician and Yaqui Indigenous leader; diabetes.[44]
  • February 2: María Alicia Martínez Medrano (76), cultural promoter (Momentos Sagrados de los Mayas).[45]
  • February 3
    • Félix Hernández López (50), journalist; automobile accident.[46]
    • Luis Santiago Catarina, academic, politician (PRD), social activist; heart attack.[47]
    • Felipe Valdez Licea, politician and farm leader in Amealco de Bonfil, Queretaro.
  • February 5: Francisco Rojas San Román, 59, polítician (PRI), federal Deputy (2009-2012); murdered (b. 1958).[48]
  • February 9
  • February 10
    • Eduardo Arce Becerra, coach and sports promoter; heart attack.[50]
    • Nohemi Hermosillo, model ("Capitol's Model") and businessperson; auto accident.[51]
  • February 11: Pablo Garza Lugo, politician (PRI) and businessperson; auto accident.[52]
  • February 12: Evaristo Gómez Hernández (78), polítician and union leader (National Educational Workers Union, SNTE); heart attack (b. 1939).[53]
  • February 13
  • February 16:
    • Jorge Hernández Andrés (64), businessperson and rejoneador (bullfighter); suicide (b. 1954).[56]
    • Guillermo Zambrano Lozano (87), businessperson (Metalsa); lung infection.
  • February 17: "Don Sshinda" (Gumercindo España Olivares), 83, wooden toy handicrafter (b. 1935).[57]
  • February 18: Tadeusz Kępka (85), Polish track coach, nationalized Mexican; home accident (b. 1932).[58]
  • February 19
    • Rafael Castro Torres (93), businessperson (b. 1924).[59]
    • Leopoldo Corona, lawyer and boxer.
  • February 20: Soledad Ricarte Bravo, journalist (XEU Noticias).[60]
  • February 21: José Luis Ibarra (72), baseball player (Tigres de Quintana Roo); diabetes.[61]
  • February 23: Magdalena Pueblito Espinosa Rodríguez, polítician from Queretaro; cáncer.
  • February 24
    • Claudia Reyes (46), teacher (b. 1971).
    • Carlos Armando Torres Lagarda, lawyer and academic.[citation needed]
  • February 25
    • Manuel Granados Enríquez (82), businessperson and former mayor of Valle de Santiago, Queretaro.[62]
    • Teresita Saad, actress ("Como dice el dicho”, “El diez”, “Código Postal” and “La Rosa de Guadalupe”).[63]
  • February 27: Tomás Morales (85), journalist and baseball sportscaster (b. 1932).[64]
  • February 28

March

April

  • April 3: Tomas Villa, 34, featherweight boxer, traffic collision.[95]
  • April 5: Erberto Shinagawa Montoya (88), journalist ("La Voz de Sinaloa", "El Sol de Sinaloa"), chronicler, and historian (b. Jan 26, 1930).[96]
  • April 6: Urbano Zea, 49, Mexican swimmer, heart attack.[97]
  • April 8: Rito Valdés Salinas (86), former mayor of Piedras Negras (1990-1993); long-time illness.[98]
  • April 9
    • Claudia Chablé Ek, journalist; cáncer.
    • Felipe Tejeda García, 83, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of México (2000–2010) (b. Jan. 21, 1935).[99]
  • April 10
    • Alejandro Hernández (74), journalist (Aguascalientes TV and Heraldo de Aguascalientes); heart attack.[100]
    • Emilia Martell, actress and singer; suicide.[101]
  • April 11:
    • Rafael Villegas Attolini, businessperson and politician.[102]
    • Alfonso Zaragoza Moreno (85), Culiacán businessperson (b. March 24, 1933).[103]
  • April 12: Sergio Pitol, 85, writer (El mago de Viena), translator, and diplomat; complications of progressive aphasia (b. March 18, 1933).[104][105]
  • April 13
    • Manuel Hernández Salomón (82), chronicler and writer.
    • Joy Laville, Mexican painter and sculptor born in the U.K.; stroke (b. 1923).[106]
  • April 14: Armando Salgado (79), photojournalist who filmed the killing of 120 students in the Corpus Christi massacre in 1971 (b. 1938).[107]
  • April 16: Sendy Arlet Guerrero Montejo, journalist; bone cancer.[108]
  • April 17: Martha Meza, journalist (El Diario de Xalapa); cáncer.[109]
  • April 18: Rubén Díaz Alcántara (50), priest, murdered (b. 1968).[110]
  • April 19: Graciela Agudelo, 72, Mexican pianist and composer (Premio Xochipilli—INBA, 2002).[111]
  • April 21
    • Jesús Ramírez Elisea (87), businessperson (Hotel Fiesta Mexicana).[112]
    • Ignacio Solorio Arroyo (65), lawyer (director of "El Vigia"); heart attack.[113]
  • April 22: María Loreto Elba Rojas Bruschetta (68), lawyer and judge in Puebla; illness related to tobacco (b. 1950).[114]
  • April 25: Gregorio Casal, 82, actor (La Choca); dehydration.[115]
  • April 26: Armando Contreras González, journalist, reporter, television host (TV Azteca); cáncer.[116]
  • April 27
  • April 28: As Charro (69), professional wrestler.[119]

May

June

  • June 3: Héctor Miranda (57), voice actor (b. 1961).[137]
  • June 5: Mauricio Caro (42), actor.[138]
  • June 7: Fernando Purón Johnston (43), polítician; murdered (b. 1975).[139]
  • June 11: Martín Luna (50), television producer (TV Azteca).[140]
  • June 13: Arkangel de la Muerte, 52, Mexican professional wrestler (CMLL), heart attack.[141]
  • June 25: Jaime Bermúdez Cuarón (94), polítician and businessperson (b. 1923).[142]
  • June 29: María Luisa Mendoza, 88, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician.[143]

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Notes

  1. Jaime Rodríguez Calderón (El Bronco") took a leave of absence in 2018 to run for President as the first independent candidate in history.

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